RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Youssef Absi

1946 - Today

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Youssef Absi (Arabic: يوسف عبسي; Latin: Iosephus Absi; born June 20, 1946, in Damascus, Syria) is the current patriarch of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church, serving since June 21, 2017. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Youssef Absi has received more than 131,918 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Youssef Absi is the 2,736th most popular religious figure (down from 2,603rd in 2019), the 168th most popular biography from Syria (down from 161st in 2019) and the 20th most popular Syrian Religious Figure.

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  • 3.06

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Youssef Absi ranks 2,736 out of 3,187Before him are Ciarán of Clonmacnoise, Pierre Nguyễn Văn Nhơn, Jean Marcel Honoré, Lojze Grozde, Vicente Enrique y Tarancón, and Aimee Semple McPherson. After him are Franziskus von Bettinger, Gérald Lacroix, Emmanuel Wamala, Marek Jędraszewski, Louis-Marie Billé, and Edmund Szoka.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Youssef Absi ranks 547Before him are Michael, Prince of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Yekaterina Gradova, Stephen P. Synnott, Tom Walkinshaw, Milton Viera, and Elisabetta Casellati. After him are Daša Drndić, Franz Xaver Kroetz, Okko Kamu, Eva Šuranová, Jiang Rong, and Michel Chossudovsky.

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In Syria

Among people born in Syria, Youssef Absi ranks 168 out of 210Before him are Muhammad Mustafa Mero (1941), Burhan Ghalioun (1945), George Wassouf (1961), Ali Farzat (1951), Suat Hayri Ürgüplü (1903), and Bushra al-Assad (1960). After him are Riad al-Asaad (1961), Issam Zahreddine (1961), Abu Mohammad al-Adnani (1977), Assala Nasri (1969), Eulogius of Alexandria (501), and Adel Safar (1953).

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Syria

Among religious figures born in Syria, Youssef Absi ranks 20Before him are John X of Antioch (1955), Gregory Peter XX Ghabroyan (1934), Ignatius Moses I Daoud (1930), Cosmas of Maiuma (675), Ignatius Joseph III Yonan (1944), and Ignatius IV of Antioch (1920). After him are Abu Mohammad al-Adnani (1977), Eulogius of Alexandria (501), Maximos IV Sayegh (1878), Ibas of Edessa (400), and Ignatius Aphrem II (1965).