Prester John

Quality:

Prester John - mythical Christian patriarch, presbyter, and king. Article “Prester John” in English Wikipedia has 79.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 70 references and 15 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

In June 2026 the article “Prester John” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 6 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Prester John”, its content was written by 326 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1364 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 219 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1379 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #4110 in December 2003
• Global: #6904 in February 2026

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #3839 in July 2016
• Global: #7757 in July 2016

There are 34 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	English (en) Prester John		79.2962
2	German (de) Priesterkönig Johannes		70.7876
3	Indonesian (id) Presbiter Yohanes		68.4444
4	Hebrew (he) הכומר יוחנן		60.216
5	French (fr) Royaume du prêtre Jean		55.0286
6	Dutch (nl) Pape Jan		54.8187
7	Latin (la) Presbyter Ioannes		46.7634
8	Galician (gl) Preste Xoán		46.2286
9	Japanese (ja) プレスター・ジョン		45.2538
10	Italian (it) Prete Gianni		32.8927

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Prester John		3 635 890
2	Japanese (ja) プレスター・ジョン		588 535
3	Italian (it) Prete Gianni		416 808
4	Spanish (es) Preste Juan		383 712
5	Portuguese (pt) Preste João		330 491
6	Russian (ru) Пресвитер Иоанн		297 226
7	French (fr) Royaume du prêtre Jean		287 727
8	German (de) Priesterkönig Johannes		275 153
9	Dutch (nl) Pape Jan		161 288
10	Chinese (zh) 祭司王約翰		116 639

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) Prester John		16 145
2	German (de) Priesterkönig Johannes		2 684
3	Japanese (ja) プレスター・ジョン		1 808
4	Russian (ru) Пресвитер Иоанн		1 454
5	Italian (it) Prete Gianni		1 307
6	French (fr) Royaume du prêtre Jean		1 277
7	Spanish (es) Preste Juan		1 248
8	Portuguese (pt) Preste João		737
9	Chinese (zh) 祭司王約翰		618
10	Dutch (nl) Pape Jan		543

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Prester John		326
2	German (de) Priesterkönig Johannes		127
3	Italian (it) Prete Gianni		123
4	French (fr) Royaume du prêtre Jean		118
5	Dutch (nl) Pape Jan		94
6	Russian (ru) Пресвитер Иоанн		88
7	Japanese (ja) プレスター・ジョン		58
8	Spanish (es) Preste Juan		50
9	Hebrew (he) הכומר יוחנן		43
10	Portuguese (pt) Preste João		39

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) Prester John		3
2	German (de) Priesterkönig Johannes		1
3	French (fr) Royaume du prêtre Jean		1
4	Russian (ru) Пресвитер Иоанн		1
5	Arabic (ar) الكاهن يوحنا		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Презвитер Йоан		0
7	Catalan (ca) Preste Joan		0
8	Czech (cs) Kněz Jan		0
9	Danish (da) Præstekongen Johannes		0
10	Greek (el) Ιωάννης ο Πρεσβύτερος (μυθικός βασιλιάς)		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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