Holy Lance

Quality:

Holy Lance - according to the Gospel of John, lance that pierced the side of Jesus as he hung on the cross. Article “Holy Lance” in English Wikipedia has 96.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 150 references and 13 sections.

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

In June 2026 the article “Holy Lance” was edited by 5 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 12 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Holy Lance”, its content was written by 608 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1829 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 295 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2196 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #497 in December 2001
• Global: #522 in December 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #2366 in December 2015
• Global: #4762 in December 2015

There are 34 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	English (en) Holy Lance		96.2466
2	Chinese (zh) 圣枪		80.2681
3	Catalan (ca) Llança Sagrada		68.373
4	Estonian (et) Longinuse oda		55.8972
5	French (fr) Sainte Lance		55.8553
6	German (de) Heilige Lanze		44.6929
7	Russian (ru) Копьё Лонгина		43.12
8	Czech (cs) Svaté kopí		36.4459
9	Hungarian (hu) Szent Lándzsa		31.4232
10	Spanish (es) Lanza sagrada		29.8019

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Holy Lance		8 861 708
2	Japanese (ja) 聖槍		2 637 852
3	Spanish (es) Lanza sagrada		2 052 357
4	Russian (ru) Копьё Лонгина		1 688 919
5	German (de) Heilige Lanze		1 318 102
6	Italian (it) Lancia di Longino		808 671
7	French (fr) Sainte Lance		753 085
8	Portuguese (pt) Lança do destino		651 800
9	Chinese (zh) 圣枪		637 809
10	Polish (pl) Włócznia Przeznaczenia		527 237

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) Holy Lance		27 560
2	Russian (ru) Копьё Лонгина		5 692
3	German (de) Heilige Lanze		3 866
4	Japanese (ja) 聖槍		3 646
5	Chinese (zh) 圣枪		2 931
6	Spanish (es) Lanza sagrada		2 740
7	French (fr) Sainte Lance		2 646
8	Italian (it) Lancia di Longino		1 790
9	Polish (pl) Włócznia Przeznaczenia		1 093
10	Portuguese (pt) Lança do destino		902

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Holy Lance		608
2	German (de) Heilige Lanze		207
3	French (fr) Sainte Lance		168
4	Spanish (es) Lanza sagrada		109
5	Russian (ru) Копьё Лонгина		95
6	Italian (it) Lancia di Longino		94
7	Japanese (ja) 聖槍		88
8	Chinese (zh) 圣枪		65
9	Czech (cs) Svaté kopí		43
10	Polish (pl) Włócznia Przeznaczenia		42

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	English (en) Holy Lance		5
2	Hebrew (he) הרומח הקדוש		3
3	Azerbaijani (az) Müqəddəs Nizə		2
4	Arabic (ar) الحربة المقدسة		1
5	Catalan (ca) Llança Sagrada		1
6	Bulgarian (bg) Копие на Лонгин		0
7	Czech (cs) Svaté kopí		0
8	German (de) Heilige Lanze		0
9	Greek (el) Ιερά Λόγχη		0
10	Spanish (es) Lanza sagrada		0

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

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