Pope Benedict XVI

Quality:

Benedict XVI - 265 th pope of the Catholic Church (2005–2013). This person is the 274^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 537^th most popular person in English Wikipedia. Article “Pope Benedict XVI” in English Wikipedia has 94.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 419 references and 53 sections.

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:

en

The 1066^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 189^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 537^th most popular in people in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 700^th most popular in all topics.

The 108^th most popular in AI.

The 274^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 3718^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1834^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 1915^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Pope Benedict XVI” was edited by 8 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 46 authors in all languages (1915^th place).

Since the creation of article “Pope Benedict XVI”, its content was written by 3003 registered users of English Wikipedia (189^th place) and edited by 11960 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (108^th place).

Benedict XVI is on the 537^th place in local ranking of people in English Wikipedia and on the 274^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 6616 times in English Wikipedia (3361^st place) and cited 59476 times in all languages (2813^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): #8 in April 2025
• Global: #2 in April 2025

There are 54 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	German (de) Benedikt XVI.		100
2	Croatian (hr) Benedikt XVI.		100
3	Malay (ms) Paus Benedictus XVI		100
4	Dutch (nl) Paus Benedictus XVI		98.8658
5	Spanish (es) Benedicto XVI		96.7025
6	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Benedikt XVI		95.8462
7	Finnish (fi) Benedictus XVI		95.51
8	Portuguese (pt) Papa Bento XVI		95.1348
9	Catalan (ca) Benet XVI		94.9408
10	French (fr) Benoît XVI		94.8835

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Pope Benedict XVI		44 371 371
2	Spanish (es) Benedicto XVI		14 425 858
3	German (de) Benedikt XVI.		11 349 768
4	Italian (it) Papa Benedetto XVI		9 261 034
5	French (fr) Benoît XVI		6 317 185
6	Polish (pl) Benedykt XVI		5 518 095
7	Portuguese (pt) Papa Bento XVI		5 322 017
8	Russian (ru) Бенедикт XVI		3 529 454
9	Japanese (ja) ベネディクト16世 (ローマ教皇)		2 362 505
10	Dutch (nl) Paus Benedictus XVI		1 799 188

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		112 699
2	Spanish (es) Benedicto XVI		62 584
3	German (de) Benedikt XVI.		27 376
4	Italian (it) Papa Benedetto XVI		17 046
5	French (fr) Benoît XVI		13 203
6	Polish (pl) Benedykt XVI		9 845
7	Portuguese (pt) Papa Bento XVI		9 491
8	Russian (ru) Бенедикт XVI		8 245
9	Japanese (ja) ベネディクト16世 (ローマ教皇)		5 247
10	Chinese (zh) 本篤十六世		4 006

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		3 003
2	German (de) Benedikt XVI.		1 457
3	French (fr) Benoît XVI		874
4	Italian (it) Papa Benedetto XVI		866
5	Spanish (es) Benedicto XVI		789
6	Polish (pl) Benedykt XVI		557
7	Dutch (nl) Paus Benedictus XVI		388
8	Portuguese (pt) Papa Bento XVI		385
9	Russian (ru) Бенедикт XVI		316
10	Japanese (ja) ベネディクト16世 (ローマ教皇)		218

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	German (de) Benedikt XVI.		11
2	English (en) Pope Benedict XVI		8
3	Polish (pl) Benedykt XVI		4
4	Spanish (es) Benedicto XVI		3
5	Azerbaijani (az) XVI Benedikt		2
6	Catalan (ca) Benet XVI		2
7	French (fr) Benoît XVI		2
8	Croatian (hr) Benedikt XVI.		2
9	Russian (ru) Бенедикт XVI		2
10	Arabic (ar) بندكت السادس عشر		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