RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Varkey Vithayathil

1927 - 2011

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Varkey Vithayathil CSsR (29 May 1927 – 1 April 2011) was an Indian cardinal who served as the Major Archbishop of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church and Archeparchy of Ernakulam-Angamaly from 1999 to 2011. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Varkey Vithayathil has received more than 60,388 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Varkey Vithayathil is the 3,055th most popular religious figure (down from 2,699th in 2019), the 991st most popular biography from India (down from 847th in 2019) and the 58th most popular Indian Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Varkey Vithayathil ranks 3,055 out of 3,187Before him are Hamza Yusuf, F. F. Bruce, Gianni Ambrosio, Peter Okpaleke, Hafiz Saeed, and Trinley Thaye Dorje. After him are Salvatore Nunnari, Paulo Cezar Costa, Filipe Neri Ferrão, Yoshiharu Habu, Artūrs Irbe, and James Gibbons.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Varkey Vithayathil ranks 475Before him are Paul Eddington, Dick Hyman, June Brown, Vin Scully, Leslie Claudius, and Abdul Hamid. After him are Geoffrey Palmer, John Dankworth, Babatunde Olatunji, Red Kelly, Connie Kay, and Janaki Ballabh Patnaik. Among people deceased in 2011, Varkey Vithayathil ranks 473Before him are Margaret Whiting, Zbigniew Jaremski, Mika Myllylä, Samuel Wanjiru, Frank Kameny, and Uche Okafor. After him are Roberta Cowell, Pete Lovely, Ronald Searle, T. P. McKenna, Anwar al-Awlaki, and Mike Barrett.

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In India

Among people born in India, Varkey Vithayathil ranks 991 out of 1,861Before him are Madhur Jaffrey (1933), Leslie Claudius (1927), Tessy Thomas (1963), Jaya Prada (1962), Padmaja Naidu (1900), and Johnny Walker (1926). After him are Arijit Singh (1987), Juliet Prowse (1936), Salman Khurshid (1953), Naushad (1919), Jagdeep (1939), and Moushumi Chatterjee (1953).

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In India

Among religious figures born in India, Varkey Vithayathil ranks 58Before him are Chandramukhi Basu (1860), Wahiduddin Khan (1925), Rukhmabai (1864), Simon Pimenta (1920), Baselios Cleemis (1959), and Ravi Zacharias (1946). After him are Filipe Neri Ferrão (1953), Joseph Parecattil (1912), Begum Samru (1746), Antony Padiyara (1921), Bhuvneshwar Kumar (1990), and Archana Soreng (1996).