Pope Francis

Quality:

Pope Francis - 266th pope of the Catholic Church from 2013 to 2025 (1936–2025). This person is the 122^nd most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 276^th most popular person in English Wikipedia. Article “Pope Francis” in English Wikipedia has 97 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 727 references and 66 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 526^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 588^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

The 276^th most popular in people in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 325^th most popular in all topics.

The 300^th most popular in AI.

The 122^nd most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 2411^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1111^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 1552^nd most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Pope Francis” was edited by 7 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 51 authors in all languages (1552^nd place).

Since the creation of article “Pope Francis”, its content was written by 2270 registered users of English Wikipedia (588^th place) and edited by 9510 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (300^th place).

Pope Francis is on the 276^th place in local ranking of people in English Wikipedia and on the 122^nd place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 7861 times in English Wikipedia (2679^th place) and cited 69345 times in all languages (2456^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, 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	Spanish (es) Francisco (papa)		100
2	German (de) Franziskus (Papst)		100
3	Indonesian (id) Paus Fransiskus		100
4	Slovak (sk) František (pápež)		100
5	Latin (la) Franciscus (papa)		100
6	Slovenian (sl) Papež Frančišek		97.8464
7	English (en) Pope Francis		96.9509
8	Polish (pl) Franciszek (papież)		96.7036
9	Dutch (nl) Paus Franciscus		96.4706
10	Czech (cs) František (papež)		96.4458

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Pope Francis		60 056 165
2	Spanish (es) Francisco (papa)		23 500 582
3	Italian (it) Papa Francesco		12 337 484
4	German (de) Franziskus (Papst)		8 711 998
5	French (fr) François (pape)		8 057 023
6	Polish (pl) Franciszek (papież)		7 412 973
7	Portuguese (pt) Papa Francisco		6 383 896
8	Russian (ru) Франциск (папа римский)		5 523 631
9	Japanese (ja) フランシスコ (ローマ教皇)		2 513 775
10	Chinese (zh) 方濟各 (教宗)		2 132 428

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		147 452
2	Spanish (es) Francisco (papa)		103 043
3	Italian (it) Papa Francesco		20 531
4	French (fr) François (pape)		18 047
5	German (de) Franziskus (Papst)		17 897
6	Russian (ru) Франциск (папа римский)		15 712
7	Portuguese (pt) Papa Francisco		11 564
8	Polish (pl) Franciszek (papież)		11 103
9	Chinese (zh) 方濟各 (教宗)		8 805
10	Japanese (ja) フランシスコ (ローマ教皇)		7 597

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		2 270
2	Spanish (es) Francisco (papa)		812
3	German (de) Franziskus (Papst)		786
4	French (fr) François (pape)		691
5	Italian (it) Papa Francesco		607
6	Polish (pl) Franciszek (papież)		422
7	Portuguese (pt) Papa Francisco		316
8	Russian (ru) Франциск (папа римский)		307
9	Dutch (nl) Paus Franciscus		275
10	Chinese (zh) 方濟各 (教宗)		238

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	English (en) Pope Francis		7
2	Spanish (es) Francisco (papa)		5
3	Arabic (ar) فرنسيس (بابا الفاتيكان)		4
4	Italian (it) Papa Francesco		4
5	Simple English (simple) Pope Francis		4
6	Ukrainian (uk) Франциск (папа)		4
7	Russian (ru) Франциск (папа римский)		3
8	Catalan (ca) Francesc (papa)		2
9	German (de) Franziskus (Papst)		2
10	Persian (fa) پاپ فرانسیس		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 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