Pope

Quality:

Pope - bishop of Rome and head of the Roman Catholic church. Article “Pope” in English Wikipedia has 93.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 281 references and 53 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 2036^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 714^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 973^rd most popular in all topics.

The 381^st most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 4203^rd most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1903^rd most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 3008^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Pope” was edited by 5 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 37 authors in all languages (3008^th place).

Since the creation of article “Pope”, its content was written by 2154 registered users of English Wikipedia (714^th place) and edited by 8877 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (381^st place).

The article is cited 9642 times in English Wikipedia (2108^th place) and cited 152600 times in all languages (785^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #5 in April 2005
• Global: #3 in April 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #21 in May 2025
• Global: #11 in April 2025

There are 55 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) Papa		100
2	Catalan (ca) Papa		99.6873
3	English (en) Pope		93.1536
4	German (de) Papst		86.4176
5	Spanish (es) Papa		85.1585
6	French (fr) Pape		84.983
7	Finnish (fi) Paavi		84.0859
8	Malay (ms) Paus (Katolik)		82.4165
9	Korean (ko) 교황		77.0324
10	Indonesian (id) Paus (Gereja Katolik)		75.3493

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Pope		33 206 957
2	Spanish (es) Papa		12 063 108
3	German (de) Papst		8 042 289
4	French (fr) Pape		4 959 258
5	Russian (ru) Папство		4 877 244
6	Japanese (ja) 教皇		4 683 056
7	Italian (it) Papa		4 151 592
8	Polish (pl) Papież		3 745 073
9	Portuguese (pt) Papa		3 514 867
10	Chinese (zh) 教宗		2 128 813

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) Pope		104 563
2	Spanish (es) Papa		54 062
3	German (de) Papst		19 625
4	French (fr) Pape		16 558
5	Japanese (ja) 教皇		16 034
6	Polish (pl) Papież		9 720
7	Russian (ru) Папство		9 204
8	Italian (it) Papa		8 758
9	Chinese (zh) 教宗		7 433
10	Portuguese (pt) Papa		6 515

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Pope		2 154
2	German (de) Papst		723
3	Spanish (es) Papa		645
4	French (fr) Pape		560
5	Italian (it) Papa		400
6	Portuguese (pt) Papa		318
7	Dutch (nl) Paus		310
8	Polish (pl) Papież		306
9	Russian (ru) Папство		247
10	Japanese (ja) 教皇		212

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) Papa		12
2	Catalan (ca) Papa		5
3	English (en) Pope		5
4	Hebrew (he) אפיפיור		3
5	Arabic (ar) بابوية كاثوليكية		2
6	Chinese (zh) 教宗		2
7	Bulgarian (bg) Папа		1
8	Czech (cs) Papež		1
9	German (de) Papst		1
10	Basque (eu) Aita santu		1

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 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information