Ordination of women and the Catholic Church

Catholic Church doctrine on the ordination of women - catholic charch. Article “Ordination of women and the Catholic Church” in English Wikipedia has 85 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 126 references and 23 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 2025 the article “Ordination of women and the Catholic Church” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 3 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Ordination of women and the Catholic Church”, its content was written by 144 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 245 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 122 times in English Wikipedia and cited 165 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #19542 in November 2016
• Global: #63159 in November 2016

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #109946 in September 2011
• Global: #163174 in May 2025

There are 4 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) Ordination of women and the Catholic Church		85.0152
2	Spanish (es) Ordenación de mujeres y la Iglesia católica		70.2683
3	French (fr) Ordination des femmes dans l'Église catholique		31.7397
4	Indonesian (id) Penahbisan perempuan dan Gereja Katolik		18.941

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Ordination of women and the Catholic Church" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ordination of women and the Catholic Church		826 630
2	French (fr) Ordination des femmes dans l'Église catholique		125 929
3	Spanish (es) Ordenación de mujeres y la Iglesia católica		7 485
4	Indonesian (id) Penahbisan perempuan dan Gereja Katolik		187

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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 "Ordination of women and the Catholic Church" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Ordination of women and the Catholic Church		2 767
2	French (fr) Ordination des femmes dans l'Église catholique		595
3	Spanish (es) Ordenación de mujeres y la Iglesia católica		167
4	Indonesian (id) Penahbisan perempuan dan Gereja Katolik		10

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

Language versions of the article "Ordination of women and the Catholic Church" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Ordination of women and the Catholic Church		144
2	French (fr) Ordination des femmes dans l'Église catholique		89
3	Spanish (es) Ordenación de mujeres y la Iglesia católica		11
4	Indonesian (id) Penahbisan perempuan dan Gereja Katolik		1

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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 "Ordination of women and the Catholic Church" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Ordination of women and the Catholic Church		3
2	Spanish (es) Ordenación de mujeres y la Iglesia católica		0
3	French (fr) Ordination des femmes dans l'Église catholique		0
4	Indonesian (id) Penahbisan perempuan dan Gereja Katolik		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 "Ordination of women and the Catholic Church" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Ordination of women and the Catholic Church		122
2	French (fr) Ordination des femmes dans l'Église catholique		33
3	Spanish (es) Ordenación de mujeres y la Iglesia católica		7
4	Indonesian (id) Penahbisan perempuan dan Gereja Katolik		3

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#	Language	Value
en	English Ordination of women and the Catholic Church
es	Spanish Ordenación de mujeres y la Iglesia católica
fr	French Ordination des femmes dans l'Église catholique
id	Indonesian Penahbisan perempuan dan Gereja Katolik

Best Rank

English: #109946 09.2011

Global: #163174 05.2025

Best Rank

English: #19542 11.2016

Global: #63159 11.2016

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