Apostolic succession

Apostolic succession - method whereby the ministry of the Christian Church is held to be derived from the apostles by a continuous succession. Article “Apostolic succession” in English Wikipedia has 94 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 341 references and 27 sections.

This article has the best quality in Portuguese Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

In June 2026 the article “Apostolic succession” was edited by 8 authors in English Wikipedia (9840^th place) and written by 11 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Apostolic succession”, its content was written by 529 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1396 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1977 times in English Wikipedia and cited 10864 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #258 in July 2003
• Global: #1157 in November 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #30547 in May 2025
• Global: #32127 in May 2025

There are 35 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, 2026 (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	Portuguese (pt) Sucessão apostólica		94.1493
2	English (en) Apostolic succession		93.9744
3	Indonesian (id) Suksesi apostolik		84.4723
4	Malay (ms) Pewaris Apostolik		55.4054
5	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Apostolsko nasledstvo		48.5933
6	German (de) Apostolische Sukzession		45.3063
7	Chinese (zh) 使徒統緒		43.3691
8	Russian (ru) Апостольское преемство		39.2214
9	French (fr) Succession apostolique		31.2115
10	Turkish (tr) Apostolik veraset		30.4584

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Apostolic succession" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Apostolic succession		2 471 907
2	Spanish (es) Sucesión apostólica		367 493
3	German (de) Apostolische Sukzession		322 183
4	Polish (pl) Sukcesja apostolska		284 279
5	Italian (it) Successione apostolica		182 350
6	French (fr) Succession apostolique		179 817
7	Russian (ru) Апостольское преемство		165 979
8	Portuguese (pt) Sucessão apostólica		127 979
9	Indonesian (id) Suksesi apostolik		113 362
10	Swedish (sv) Apostolisk succession		67 840

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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 "Apostolic succession" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Apostolic succession		9 952
2	German (de) Apostolische Sukzession		1 092
3	Czech (cs) Apoštolská posloupnost		820
4	Spanish (es) Sucesión apostólica		719
5	Italian (it) Successione apostolica		638
6	Russian (ru) Апостольское преемство		623
7	French (fr) Succession apostolique		620
8	Portuguese (pt) Sucessão apostólica		410
9	Polish (pl) Sukcesja apostolska		409
10	Chinese (zh) 使徒統緒		390

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

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Apostolic succession		529
2	German (de) Apostolische Sukzession		182
3	French (fr) Succession apostolique		97
4	Italian (it) Successione apostolica		55
5	Portuguese (pt) Sucessão apostólica		53
6	Russian (ru) Апостольское преемство		53
7	Dutch (nl) Apostolische successie		50
8	Polish (pl) Sukcesja apostolska		49
9	Spanish (es) Sucesión apostólica		46
10	Swedish (sv) Apostolisk succession		46

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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 "Apostolic succession" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Apostolic succession		8
2	German (de) Apostolische Sukzession		2
3	Italian (it) Successione apostolica		1
4	Arabic (ar) الخلافة على الكرسي البابوي		0
5	Catalan (ca) Successió apostòlica		0
6	Czech (cs) Apoštolská posloupnost		0
7	Danish (da) Apostolisk succession		0
8	Greek (el) Αποστολική διαδοχή		0
9	Esperanto (eo) Apostola posteuleco		0
10	Spanish (es) Sucesión apostólica		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 "Apostolic succession" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	Italian (it) Successione apostolica		4 350
2	English (en) Apostolic succession		1 977
3	Chinese (zh) 使徒統緒		931
4	Portuguese (pt) Sucessão apostólica		744
5	Swedish (sv) Apostolisk succession		377
6	Indonesian (id) Suksesi apostolik		361
7	Korean (ko) 사도전승		212
8	Persian (fa) خلافت رسولی		206
9	German (de) Apostolische Sukzession		196
10	French (fr) Succession apostolique		186

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic الخلافة على الكرسي البابوي
ca	Catalan Successió apostòlica
cs	Czech Apoštolská posloupnost
da	Danish Apostolisk succession
de	German Apostolische Sukzession
el	Greek Αποστολική διαδοχή
en	English Apostolic succession
eo	Esperanto Apostola posteuleco
es	Spanish Sucesión apostólica
et	Estonian Apostellik suktsessioon
fa	Persian خلافت رسولی
fi	Finnish Apostolinen suksessio
fr	French Succession apostolique
id	Indonesian Suksesi apostolik
it	Italian Successione apostolica
ja	Japanese 使徒継承
ko	Korean 사도전승
la	Latin Successio Apostolica
ms	Malay Pewaris Apostolik
nl	Dutch Apostolische successie
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Apostolisk suksesjon
no	Norwegian Apostolisk suksesjon
pl	Polish Sukcesja apostolska
pt	Portuguese Sucessão apostólica
ro	Romanian Succesiune apostolică
ru	Russian Апостольское преемство
sh	Serbo-Croatian Apostolsko nasledstvo
sk	Slovak Apoštolská postupnosť
sl	Slovenian Apostolsko nasledstvo
sr	Serbian Апостолско прејемство
sv	Swedish Apostolisk succession
tr	Turkish Apostolik veraset
uk	Ukrainian Апостольське спадкоємство
vi	Vietnamese Tông truyền
zh	Chinese 使徒統緒

Best Rank

English: #30547 05.2025

Global: #32127 05.2025

Best Rank

English: #258 07.2003

Global: #1157 11.2002

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