Cardinal (Catholic Church)

Quality:

Cardinal - senior ecclesiastical official of the Catholic Church. Article “Cardinal (Catholic Church)” in Simple English Wikipedia has 59.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 14 references and 7 sections.

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

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 9269^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6028^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 1842^nd most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8264^th most popular in AI in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Cardinal (Catholic Church)” was edited by 2 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (1842^nd place) and written by 23 authors in all languages (8264^th place).

Since the creation of article “Cardinal (Catholic Church)”, its content was written by 25 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (9269^th place) and edited by 3244 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (6028^th place).

The article is cited 655 times in Simple English Wikipedia (1657^th place) and cited 95103 times in all languages (1452^nd place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #480 in December 2024
• Global: #57 in April 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #448 in May 2025
• Global: #96 in April 2025

There are 52 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	English (en) Cardinal (Catholic Church)		86.3167
2	Italian (it) Cardinale		75.3482
3	Malay (ms) Kardinal		69.982
4	Finnish (fi) Kardinaali		69.7751
5	Simple English (simple) Cardinal (Catholic Church)		59.4015
6	German (de) Kardinal		59.1524
7	Tamil (ta) கர்தினால்		47.1193
8	Portuguese (pt) Cardeal		44.0967
9	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Kardinal		43.7077
10	Chinese (zh) 樞機		42.877

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Cardinal (Catholic Church)		8 203 061
2	Spanish (es) Cardenal		2 416 597
3	German (de) Kardinal		2 356 163
4	Italian (it) Cardinale		2 152 590
5	Japanese (ja) 枢機卿		1 878 255
6	Polish (pl) Kardynał		1 409 215
7	French (fr) Cardinal (religion)		1 351 449
8	Russian (ru) Кардинал		1 106 159
9	Chinese (zh) 樞機		851 989
10	Portuguese (pt) Cardeal		795 280

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) Cardinal (Catholic Church)		42 915
2	Japanese (ja) 枢機卿		7 705
3	Italian (it) Cardinale		6 287
4	Spanish (es) Cardenal		5 834
5	German (de) Kardinal		5 356
6	Chinese (zh) 樞機		4 846
7	Russian (ru) Кардинал		4 526
8	Polish (pl) Kardynał		3 749
9	French (fr) Cardinal (religion)		3 062
10	Portuguese (pt) Cardeal		1 544

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Cardinal (Catholic Church)		588
2	German (de) Kardinal		348
3	Italian (it) Cardinale		228
4	French (fr) Cardinal (religion)		211
5	Dutch (nl) Kardinaal (geestelijke)		175
6	Spanish (es) Cardenal		167
7	Polish (pl) Kardynał		126
8	Russian (ru) Кардинал		93
9	Chinese (zh) 樞機		87
10	Japanese (ja) 枢機卿		83

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	Hebrew (he) חשמן		5
2	English (en) Cardinal (Catholic Church)		4
3	German (de) Kardinal		2
4	Spanish (es) Cardenal		2
5	Russian (ru) Кардинал		2
6	Simple English (simple) Cardinal (Catholic Church)		2
7	Czech (cs) Kardinál		1
8	Estonian (et) Kardinal		1
9	Finnish (fi) Kardinaali		1
10	Italian (it) Cardinale		1

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

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