Pope Benedict XVI

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Benedict XVI - 265 pope of the Catholic Church from 2005 to 2013 (1927–2022). This person is the 254^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 515^th most popular person in English Wikipedia. Article “Pope Benedict XVI” in English Wikipedia has 89.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 412 references and 49 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.71 points.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 1040^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

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The 183^rd most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 515^th most popular in people in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 678^th most popular in all topics.

The 101^st most popular in AI.

The 254^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

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The 3274^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 2525^th most editable in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1851^st most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 368^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Pope Benedict XVI” was edited by 17 authors in English Wikipedia (2525^th place) and written by 100 authors in all languages (368^th place).

Since the creation of article “Pope Benedict XVI”, its content was written by 2955 registered users of English Wikipedia (183^rd place) and edited by 11910 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (101^st place).

Benedict XVI is on the 515^th place in local ranking of people in English Wikipedia and on the 254^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 6229 times in English Wikipedia (3522^nd place) and cited 56298 times in all languages (2869^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1 in April 2005
• Global: #2 in February 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #9 in April 2025
• Global: #3 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	German (de) Benedikt XVI.		100
2	Croatian (hr) Benedikt XVI.		100
3	Malay (ms) Paus Benedictus XVI		100
4	Dutch (nl) Paus Benedictus XVI		99.0177
5	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Benedikt XVI		96.0872
6	Finnish (fi) Benedictus XVI		95.4825
7	Portuguese (pt) Papa Bento XVI		95.2065
8	Spanish (es) Benedicto XVI		95.0905
9	French (fr) Benoît XVI		95.0689
10	Indonesian (id) Paus Benediktus XVI		94.8614

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Pope Benedict XVI		42 861 490
2	Spanish (es) Benedicto XVI		14 086 655
3	German (de) Benedikt XVI.		11 028 563
4	Italian (it) Papa Benedetto XVI		8 982 968
5	French (fr) Benoît XVI		6 128 797
6	Polish (pl) Benedykt XVI		5 389 056
7	Portuguese (pt) Papa Bento XVI		5 236 238
8	Russian (ru) Бенедикт XVI		3 304 186
9	Japanese (ja) ベネディクト16世 (ローマ教皇)		2 279 943
10	Dutch (nl) Paus Benedictus XVI		1 755 939

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 Benedict XVI		133 869
2	Spanish (es) Benedicto XVI		34 212
3	Italian (it) Papa Benedetto XVI		25 975
4	German (de) Benedikt XVI.		22 286
5	Portuguese (pt) Papa Bento XVI		15 104
6	French (fr) Benoît XVI		14 577
7	Russian (ru) Бенедикт XVI		11 743
8	Polish (pl) Benedykt XVI		9 408
9	Japanese (ja) ベネディクト16世 (ローマ教皇)		8 666
10	Chinese (zh) 本篤十六世		6 315

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Pope Benedict XVI		2 955
2	German (de) Benedikt XVI.		1 436
3	French (fr) Benoît XVI		863
4	Italian (it) Papa Benedetto XVI		852
5	Spanish (es) Benedicto XVI		781
6	Polish (pl) Benedykt XVI		552
7	Dutch (nl) Paus Benedictus XVI		388
8	Portuguese (pt) Papa Bento XVI		380
9	Russian (ru) Бенедикт XVI		312
10	Japanese (ja) ベネディクト16世 (ローマ教皇)		206

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	Italian (it) Papa Benedetto XVI		31
2	English (en) Pope Benedict XVI		17
3	Spanish (es) Benedicto XVI		9
4	German (de) Benedikt XVI.		6
5	Polish (pl) Benedykt XVI		5
6	Russian (ru) Бенедикт XVI		4
7	Chinese (zh) 本篤十六世		4
8	Dutch (nl) Paus Benedictus XVI		3
9	Portuguese (pt) Papa Bento XVI		3
10	Croatian (hr) Benedikt XVI.		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