Irenäus von Lyon

Irenaeus - 2nd-century Greek bishop and Doctor of the Church. Article “Irenäus von Lyon” in German Wikipedia has 31.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 12 references and 8 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (German) language version.

Since the creation of article “Irenäus von Lyon”, its content was written by 147 registered users of German Wikipedia and edited by 1949 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 254 times in German Wikipedia and cited 9668 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #1891 in February 2004
• Global: #389 in December 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #42078 in March 2008
• Global: #25560 in June 2024

There are 43 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Irenaeus		97.5535
2	Catalan (ca) Ireneu de Lió		84.7692
3	Galician (gl) Ireneu de Lión		67.7392
4	Chinese (zh) 爱任纽		55.1393
5	French (fr) Irénée de Lyon		54.7395
6	Hungarian (hu) Szent Iréneusz		44.351
7	Portuguese (pt) Ireneu de Lyon		42.4754
8	Greek (el) Ειρηναίος Λουγδούνου		33.1068
9	Latin (la) Irenaeus (episcopus Lugdunensis)		33.0912
10	Slovenian (sl) Irenej Lyonski		32.9286

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Irenäus von Lyon" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Irenaeus		3 552 804
2	Spanish (es) Ireneo de Lyon		846 386
3	French (fr) Irénée de Lyon		536 807
4	Portuguese (pt) Ireneu de Lyon		384 287
5	Italian (it) Ireneo di Lione		321 413
6	German (de) Irenäus von Lyon		299 417
7	Polish (pl) Ireneusz z Lyonu		252 135
8	Russian (ru) Ириней Лионский		238 375
9	Chinese (zh) 爱任纽		83 335
10	Dutch (nl) Ireneüs van Lyon		83 214

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Irenäus von Lyon" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Irenaeus		25 888
2	Spanish (es) Ireneo de Lyon		5 243
3	French (fr) Irénée de Lyon		4 165
4	Portuguese (pt) Ireneu de Lyon		2 676
5	Italian (it) Ireneo di Lione		2 084
6	German (de) Irenäus von Lyon		2 077
7	Russian (ru) Ириней Лионский		1 308
8	Polish (pl) Ireneusz z Lyonu		1 199
9	Chinese (zh) 爱任纽		671
10	Japanese (ja) エイレナイオス		540

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Irenäus von Lyon" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Irenaeus		504
2	French (fr) Irénée de Lyon		183
3	German (de) Irenäus von Lyon		147
4	Italian (it) Ireneo di Lione		117
5	Dutch (nl) Ireneüs van Lyon		101
6	Spanish (es) Ireneo de Lyon		99
7	Russian (ru) Ириней Лионский		63
8	Portuguese (pt) Ireneu de Lyon		58
9	Polish (pl) Ireneusz z Lyonu		55
10	Norwegian (no) Ireneus av Lyon		38

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Irenäus von Lyon" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Irenaeus		4
2	Arabic (ar) إيرينيئوس		1
3	French (fr) Irénée de Lyon		1
4	Armenian (hy) Հիրենեոս Լիոնացի		1
5	Slovak (sk) Irenej z Lyonu		1
6	Turkish (tr) İrinaios		1
7	Azerbaijani (az) Lionlu İriney		0
8	Bulgarian (bg) Ириней Лионски		0
9	Catalan (ca) Ireneu de Lió		0
10	Czech (cs) Irenej z Lyonu		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Irenäus von Lyon" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Irenaeus		2 572
2	Chinese (zh) 爱任纽		592
3	French (fr) Irénée de Lyon		567
4	Italian (it) Ireneo di Lione		553
5	Russian (ru) Ириней Лионский		497
6	Persian (fa) ایرنئوس		390
7	Spanish (es) Ireneo de Lyon		383
8	Portuguese (pt) Ireneu de Lyon		314
9	German (de) Irenäus von Lyon		254
10	Polish (pl) Ireneusz z Lyonu		237

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic إيرينيئوس
az	Azerbaijani Lionlu İriney
bg	Bulgarian Ириней Лионски
ca	Catalan Ireneu de Lió
cs	Czech Irenej z Lyonu
da	Danish Irenæus
de	German Irenäus von Lyon
el	Greek Ειρηναίος Λουγδούνου
en	English Irenaeus
eo	Esperanto Ireneo de Liono
es	Spanish Ireneo de Lyon
eu	Basque Ireneo Lyongoa
fa	Persian ایرنئوس
fi	Finnish Irenaeus
fr	French Irénée de Lyon
gl	Galician Ireneu de Lión
he	Hebrew אירנאיוס
hr	Croatian Irenej Lionski
hu	Hungarian Szent Iréneusz
hy	Armenian Հիրենեոս Լիոնացի
id	Indonesian Ireneus
it	Italian Ireneo di Lione
ja	Japanese エイレナイオス
ka	Georgian ირინეოს ლიონელი
ko	Korean 이레네오
la	Latin Irenaeus (episcopus Lugdunensis)
lt	Lithuanian Irenėjus
nl	Dutch Ireneüs van Lyon
no	Norwegian Ireneus av Lyon
pl	Polish Ireneusz z Lyonu
pt	Portuguese Ireneu de Lyon
ro	Romanian Irineu de Lyon
ru	Russian Ириней Лионский
sh	Serbo-Croatian Irenej Lionski
simple	Simple English Irenaeus
sk	Slovak Irenej z Lyonu
sl	Slovenian Irenej Lyonski
sr	Serbian Иринеј Лионски
sv	Swedish Irenaeus
ta	Tamil இரனேயு
tr	Turkish İrinaios
vi	Vietnamese Irênê
zh	Chinese 爱任纽

Best Rank

German: #42078 03.2008

Global: #25560 06.2024

Best Rank

German: #1891 02.2004

Global: #389 12.2001

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