Simon Petrus

Quality:

Saint Peter - first pope of the Catholic Church, patriarch of Antioch, and apostle of Jesus Christ. This person is the 619^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people. Article “Simon Petrus” in German Wikipedia has 96.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 102 references and 31 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

German Wikipedia:

de

The 4269^th most popular in German Wikipedia.

de

The 1517^th most editable in German Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1885^th most popular in all topics.

The 730^th most popular in AI.

The 619^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

German Wikipedia:

de

The 4629^th most popular in German Wikipedia in the last month.

de

The 8139^th most editable in German Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1332^nd most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 2418^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Simon Petrus” was edited by 4 authors in German Wikipedia (8139^th place) and written by 41 authors in all languages (2418^th place).

Since the creation of article “Simon Petrus”, its content was written by 540 registered users of German Wikipedia (1517^th place) and edited by 7102 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (730^th place).

Saint Peter is on the 619^th place in global ranking of people on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 4869 times in German Wikipedia (1566^th place) and cited 68132 times in all languages (2408^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (German): #269 in June 2006
• Global: #143 in February 2009

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (German): #195 in April 2025
• Global: #75 in April 2025

There are 53 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) Saint Peter		98.1668
2	German (de) Simon Petrus		96.5089
3	Catalan (ca) Sant Pere		95
4	Finnish (fi) Pietari (apostoli)		92.8337
5	Italian (it) Pietro (apostolo)		90.5697
6	Spanish (es) Simón Pedro		85.5895
7	French (fr) Pierre (apôtre)		80.7469
8	Hungarian (hu) Péter apostol		76.3508
9	Polish (pl) Piotr Apostoł		68.6178
10	Dutch (nl) Petrus		63.4795

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Saint Peter		24 936 953
2	Spanish (es) Simón Pedro		8 449 072
3	Portuguese (pt) Pedro (apóstolo)		3 967 047
4	Italian (it) Pietro (apostolo)		3 746 464
5	German (de) Simon Petrus		3 617 073
6	French (fr) Pierre (apôtre)		3 060 933
7	Polish (pl) Piotr Apostoł		2 960 750
8	Russian (ru) Апостол Пётр		2 889 082
9	Japanese (ja) ペトロ		2 219 551
10	Dutch (nl) Petrus		1 110 896

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Saint Peter		157 701
2	Spanish (es) Simón Pedro		43 594
3	Portuguese (pt) Pedro (apóstolo)		29 303
4	Italian (it) Pietro (apostolo)		17 905
5	French (fr) Pierre (apôtre)		17 461
6	Russian (ru) Апостол Пётр		15 979
7	German (de) Simon Petrus		13 071
8	Japanese (ja) ペトロ		10 284
9	Polish (pl) Piotr Apostoł		8 482
10	Chinese (zh) 彼得 (使徒)		7 235

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Saint Peter		1 956
2	German (de) Simon Petrus		540
3	Italian (it) Pietro (apostolo)		478
4	French (fr) Pierre (apôtre)		412
5	Spanish (es) Simón Pedro		394
6	Polish (pl) Piotr Apostoł		268
7	Dutch (nl) Petrus		247
8	Portuguese (pt) Pedro (apóstolo)		244
9	Russian (ru) Апостол Пётр		198
10	Hebrew (he) פטרוס		137

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Spanish (es) Simón Pedro		11
2	English (en) Saint Peter		5
3	German (de) Simon Petrus		4
4	Italian (it) Pietro (apostolo)		4
5	French (fr) Pierre (apôtre)		3
6	Galician (gl) Pedro, papa		2
7	Croatian (hr) Sveti Petar		2
8	Dutch (nl) Petrus		2
9	Portuguese (pt) Pedro (apóstolo)		2
10	Russian (ru) Апостол Пётр		2

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

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 44 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2025. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2025 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2025... More information