Canonisation

Quality:

Canonization - declaration that a deceased person is an officially recognized saint. Article “Canonisation” in French Wikipedia has 27.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 23 references and 12 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.46 points.

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

Since the creation of article “Canonisation”, its content was written by 116 registered users of French Wikipedia and edited by 1641 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 2313 times in French Wikipedia (5579^th place) and cited 26216 times in all languages (6434^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (French): #486 in July 2004
• Global: #1381 in April 2014

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (French): #91 in April 2014
• Global: #878 in April 2014

There are 48 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) Canonization		72.0808
2	Italian (it) Canonizzazione		36.3991
3	Croatian (hr) Kanonizacija		33.684
4	Hebrew (he) קאנוניזציה (קדושים נוצרים)		33.6483
5	German (de) Heiligsprechung		32.194
6	Latin (la) Canonizatio		29.3214
7	French (fr) Canonisation		27.667
8	Persian (fa) قدیس‌شدن		26.4248
9	Turkish (tr) Azizleştirme		25.0445
10	Galician (gl) Canonización		24.9158

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Canonization		6 907 937
2	Spanish (es) Canonización		1 944 912
3	French (fr) Canonisation		1 376 462
4	German (de) Heiligsprechung		944 515
5	Polish (pl) Kanonizacja		716 355
6	Portuguese (pt) Canonização		714 073
7	Russian (ru) Канонизация		603 276
8	Italian (it) Canonizzazione		583 260
9	Japanese (ja) 列聖		485 507
10	Swedish (sv) Kanonisering		188 610

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) Canonization		20 208
2	Spanish (es) Canonización		4 429
3	French (fr) Canonisation		2 683
4	German (de) Heiligsprechung		1 871
5	Italian (it) Canonizzazione		1 382
6	Japanese (ja) 列聖		1 381
7	Russian (ru) Канонизация		1 326
8	Portuguese (pt) Canonização		1 163
9	Polish (pl) Kanonizacja		974
10	Chinese (zh) 封圣		865

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Canonization		437
2	German (de) Heiligsprechung		198
3	French (fr) Canonisation		116
4	Italian (it) Canonizzazione		109
5	Dutch (nl) Heiligverklaring		71
6	Spanish (es) Canonización		69
7	Russian (ru) Канонизация		54
8	Polish (pl) Kanonizacja		52
9	Swedish (sv) Kanonisering		46
10	Portuguese (pt) Canonização		42

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) Canonization		4
2	German (de) Heiligsprechung		2
3	Italian (it) Canonizzazione		1
4	Russian (ru) Канонизация		1
5	Arabic (ar) إعلان القداسة		0
6	Belarusian (be) Кананізацыя		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Канонизация		0
8	Catalan (ca) Canonització		0
9	Czech (cs) Kanonizace		0
10	Danish (da) Kanonisering		0

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

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