Pope Francis

Quality:

Pope Francis - 266th pope of the Catholic Church (1936–2025). This person is the 120^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 262^nd most popular person in English Wikipedia. Article “Pope Francis” in English Wikipedia has 97.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 715 references and 65 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 514^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 574^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 262^nd most popular in people in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 323^rd most popular in all topics.

The 301^st most popular in AI.

The 120^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 1204^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

en

The 2962^nd most editable in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 609^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 231^st most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Pope Francis” was edited by 16 authors in English Wikipedia (2962^nd place) and written by 121 authors in all languages (231^st place).

Since the creation of article “Pope Francis”, its content was written by 2238 registered users of English Wikipedia (574^th place) and edited by 9347 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (301^st place).

Pope Francis is on the 262^nd place in local ranking of people in English Wikipedia and on the 120^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 7246 times in English Wikipedia (2880^th place) and cited 64879 times in all languages (2525^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1 in March 2013
• Global: #1 in April 2025

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #1 in April 2025
• Global: #1 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, 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	Spanish (es) Francisco (papa)		100
2	German (de) Franziskus (Papst)		100
3	Indonesian (id) Paus Fransiskus		100
4	Slovak (sk) František (pápež)		100
5	Slovenian (sl) Papež Frančišek		100
6	Latin (la) Franciscus (papa)		100
7	English (en) Pope Francis		97.0611
8	Polish (pl) Franciszek (papież)		96.8866
9	Dutch (nl) Paus Franciscus		96.4706
10	Czech (cs) František (papež)		96.457

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Pope Francis		57 865 002
2	Spanish (es) Francisco (papa)		22 880 649
3	Italian (it) Papa Francesco		11 902 106
4	German (de) Franziskus (Papst)		8 222 842
5	French (fr) François (pape)		7 763 379
6	Polish (pl) Franciszek (papież)		7 232 960
7	Portuguese (pt) Papa Francisco		6 271 597
8	Russian (ru) Франциск (папа римский)		5 233 872
9	Japanese (ja) フランシスコ (ローマ教皇)		2 393 860
10	Chinese (zh) 方濟各 (教宗)		2 028 055

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 Francis		235 416
2	Spanish (es) Francisco (papa)		74 584
3	Italian (it) Papa Francesco		48 641
4	Russian (ru) Франциск (папа римский)		25 957
5	German (de) Franziskus (Papst)		25 619
6	French (fr) François (pape)		25 383
7	Portuguese (pt) Papa Francisco		24 578
8	Polish (pl) Franciszek (papież)		15 527
9	Chinese (zh) 方濟各 (教宗)		14 546
10	Japanese (ja) フランシスコ (ローマ教皇)		13 708

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Pope Francis		2 238
2	Spanish (es) Francisco (papa)		792
3	German (de) Franziskus (Papst)		780
4	French (fr) François (pape)		678
5	Italian (it) Papa Francesco		580
6	Polish (pl) Franciszek (papież)		404
7	Portuguese (pt) Papa Francisco		304
8	Russian (ru) Франциск (папа римский)		298
9	Dutch (nl) Paus Franciscus		271
10	Chinese (zh) 方濟各 (教宗)		224

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 Francesco		31
2	English (en) Pope Francis		16
3	Spanish (es) Francisco (papa)		7
4	Russian (ru) Франциск (папа римский)		6
5	French (fr) François (pape)		5
6	Chinese (zh) 方濟各 (教宗)		5
7	German (de) Franziskus (Papst)		4
8	Portuguese (pt) Papa Francisco		4
9	Indonesian (id) Paus Fransiskus		3
10	Japanese (ja) フランシスコ (ローマ教皇)		3

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