RELIGIOUS FIGURE

William J. Seymour

1870 - 1922

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William Joseph Seymour (May 2, 1870 – September 28, 1922) was a Holiness Pentecostal preacher who initiated the Azusa Street Revival, an influential event in the rise of the Pentecostal and Charismatic movements, particularly Holiness Pentecostalism. He was the second of eight children born in an African-American family to emancipated slaves. Seymour was a student of the early Pentecostal minister Charles Parham, and he adopted Parham's belief that speaking in tongues was the sign of receiving the baptism in the Holy Spirit. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William J. Seymour has received more than 710,636 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. William J. Seymour is the 2,018th most popular religious figure, the 4,092nd most popular biography from United States and the 33rd most popular American Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, William J. Seymour ranks 2,018 out of 3,187. Before him are Willigis, José Policarpo, Gianfranco Ravasi, John Francis Regis, Sophronius IV of Alexandria, and Agag. After him are Coloman of Stockerau, Kevin of Glendalough, Sadegh Khalkhali, Balthasar Bekker, Eugenios Voulgaris, and Kelvin Felix.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1870, William J. Seymour ranks 95. Before him are Princess Adelgunde of Bavaria, Francisco S. Carvajal, Édouard Le Roy, Albert Sechehaye, Nikolay Lossky, and Annie Londonderry. After him are Louis Bachelier, Magnus Enckell, Oskar Vogt, Evgeny Paton, John Paine, and Conrad Böcker. Among people deceased in 1922, William J. Seymour ranks 81. Before him are Bahaeddin Şakir, Viktor Kingissepp, William Stewart Halsted, Lord Leopold Mountbatten, Kabayama Sukenori, and Yevgeny Vakhtangov. After him are Pavle Jurišić Šturm, Nikolai Nebogatov, Max von Hausen, Petros Protopapadakis, James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce, and Anna Missuna.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, William J. Seymour ranks 4,092 out of 20,380. Before him are Jack Klugman (1922), Chuck Hagel (1946), Robert Parish (1953), William Kaelin Jr. (1957), Fred MacMurray (1908), and John Cromwell (1886). After him are David Huddleston (1930), Maurice Hilleman (1919), Ginger Lynn (1962), Benjamin Apthorp Gould (1824), Gus Hall (1910), and Anna Elizabeth Klumpke (1856).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In United States

Among religious figures born in United States, William J. Seymour ranks 33. Before him are Bill W. (1895), Elizabeth Bolden (1890), Charles Fox Parham (1873), Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton (1757), David Wilkerson (1931), and David Koresh (1959). After him are Lucian Pulvermacher (1918), Dwight L. Moody (1837), James Michael Harvey (1949), Jeralean Talley (1899), Yusuf Estes (1944), and Theodore Edgar McCarrick (1930).

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