RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Vissarion

1961 - Today

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Sergei Anatolyevitch Torop (Russian: Серге́й Анато́льевич То́роп, Sergej Anatolʹevič Torop; born 14 January 1961), known as Vissarion (Russian: Виссарио́н, IPA: [vʲɪsərʲɪˈon], "He who gives new life" or "life-giving"), is a Russian spiritual teacher and founder of the non-profit, religious organization Church of the Last Testament, described by many organizations as a cult. According to the followers of Sergei Torop and some of his own explanations, on 18 August 1990, at the age of 29, Sergey had a “spiritual awakening”.[2] He gave his first public teaching after awakening in Minusinsk on 18 August 1991. He founded the Church of the Last Testament (Церковь Последнего Завета Tserkov Poslednego Zaveta), also known as the Community of Unified Faith, with its head church located in the Siberian Taiga in the Minusinsk Basin east of Abakan, in the small settlement called Abode of Dawn (official name) or The Sun City (unofficial name) near Petropavlovka. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vissarion has received more than 738,760 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Vissarion is the 2,902nd most popular religious figure (down from 2,602nd in 2019), the 2,271st most popular biography from Russia (down from 2,076th in 2019) and the 45th most popular Russian Religious Figure.

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  • 740k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.90

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.26

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.73

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Vissarion ranks 2,902 out of 3,187. Before him are William H. Keeler, Cosmo Gordon Lang, Mary MacKillop, Nechtan nepos Uerb, Youssef Rzouga, and Joseph Werth. After him are Johannes Weiss, Wahiduddin Khan, Rodolfo Quezada Toruño, Paul Gallagher, Gérard Mulumba Kalemba, and Wenceslao Padilla.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1961, Vissarion ranks 389. Before him are Jasmin Repeša, Vladimir Kolokoltsev, Jurga Ivanauskaitė, George Lopez, Kim Delaney, and Hiro Matsushita. After him are Angelo Mazzoni, Satoshi Tsunami, Danny Carey, Todd McFarlane, Abigail Johnson, and Lolita Davidovich.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vissarion ranks 2,271 out of 3,761. Before him are Viktor Vinogradov (1894), Daniil Kvyat (1994), Aleksandr Baluev (1958), Vera Komisova (1953), Yelena Safonova (1956), and Maria Lvova-Belova (1984). After him are Vasily Goncharov (1861), Lyudmyla Denisova (1960), Oleg Tinkov (1967), Nina Kraviz (1987), Leonid Shcherbakov (1927), and Aleksandr Nikolayevich Balandin (1953).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Russia

Among religious figures born in Russia, Vissarion ranks 45. Before him are Elsa Brändström (1888), Nikolay Ilminsky (1822), Anna Filosofova (1837), Talgat Tadzhuddin (1948), Grigory Rodchenkov (1958), and Hilarion (1966). After him are Rawil Gaynetdin (1959), Chris McHugh (null), and Anna Khvorikova (1997).

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