Death and funeral of Pope Benedict XVI

Quality:

Death and funeral of Benedict XVI - death and funeral proceedings of Pope Benedict XVI. This event is the 8156^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of events. Article “Death and funeral of Pope Benedict XVI” in Simple English Wikipedia has 29.4 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 7 references and 1 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:

Global Wikipedia:

The 8156^th most popular in events.

Since the creation of article “Death and funeral of Pope Benedict XVI”, its content was written by 3 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 306 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Death and funeral of Benedict XVI is on the 8156^th place in global ranking of events on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 4 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 647 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #2939 in January 2023
• Global: #80 in January 2023

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #6724 in April 2025
• Global: #1942 in April 2025

There are 13 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) Death and funeral of Pope Benedict XVI		95.1633
2	Chinese (zh) 本篤十六世之死及葬禮		93.0598
3	Indonesian (id) Kematian dan pemakaman Paus Benediktus XVI		92.1505
4	Spanish (es) Muerte y funeral de Benedicto XVI		82.3045
5	Portuguese (pt) Morte e funeral de Bento XVI		71.5555
6	Polish (pl) Pogrzeb Benedykta XVI		63.1867
7	Slovenian (sl) Smrt in državni pogreb papeža Benedikta XVI.		50.3188
8	Simple English (simple) Death and funeral of Pope Benedict XVI		29.3514
9	French (fr) Mort et funérailles de Benoît XVI		29.3204
10	Malay (ms) Kemangkatan dan pemakaman negara Paus Benediktus XVI		28.4105

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Death and funeral of Pope Benedict XVI		642 210
2	Spanish (es) Muerte y funeral de Benedicto XVI		132 010
3	Portuguese (pt) Morte e funeral de Bento XVI		58 821
4	French (fr) Mort et funérailles de Benoît XVI		48 272
5	Chinese (zh) 本篤十六世之死及葬禮		35 281
6	Polish (pl) Pogrzeb Benedykta XVI		28 695
7	Czech (cs) Smrt a pohřeb papeže Benedikta XVI.		5 043
8	Slovak (sk) Smrť a pohreb pápeža Benedikta XVI.		4 519
9	Vietnamese (vi) Cái chết và tang lễ Giáo hoàng Biển Đức XVI		4 270
10	Indonesian (id) Kematian dan pemakaman Paus Benediktus XVI		3 261

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) Death and funeral of Pope Benedict XVI		4 276
2	Spanish (es) Muerte y funeral de Benedicto XVI		888
3	Chinese (zh) 本篤十六世之死及葬禮		410
4	French (fr) Mort et funérailles de Benoît XVI		392
5	Portuguese (pt) Morte e funeral de Bento XVI		378
6	Polish (pl) Pogrzeb Benedykta XVI		179
7	Indonesian (id) Kematian dan pemakaman Paus Benediktus XVI		77
8	Vietnamese (vi) Cái chết và tang lễ Giáo hoàng Biển Đức XVI		73
9	Simple English (simple) Death and funeral of Pope Benedict XVI		37
10	Czech (cs) Smrt a pohřeb papeže Benedikta XVI.		27

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Death and funeral of Pope Benedict XVI		170
2	Spanish (es) Muerte y funeral de Benedicto XVI		32
3	Portuguese (pt) Morte e funeral de Bento XVI		27
4	Chinese (zh) 本篤十六世之死及葬禮		21
5	French (fr) Mort et funérailles de Benoît XVI		16
6	Czech (cs) Smrt a pohřeb papeže Benedikta XVI.		14
7	Polish (pl) Pogrzeb Benedykta XVI		12
8	Simple English (simple) Death and funeral of Pope Benedict XVI		3
9	Slovak (sk) Smrť a pohreb pápeža Benedikta XVI.		3
10	Vietnamese (vi) Cái chết và tang lễ Giáo hoàng Biển Đức XVI		3

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	Indonesian (id) Kematian dan pemakaman Paus Benediktus XVI		1
2	Vietnamese (vi) Cái chết và tang lễ Giáo hoàng Biển Đức XVI		1
3	Chinese (zh) 本篤十六世之死及葬禮		1
4	Czech (cs) Smrt a pohřeb papeže Benedikta XVI.		0
5	English (en) Death and funeral of Pope Benedict XVI		0
6	Spanish (es) Muerte y funeral de Benedicto XVI		0
7	French (fr) Mort et funérailles de Benoît XVI		0
8	Malay (ms) Kemangkatan dan pemakaman negara Paus Benediktus XVI		0
9	Polish (pl) Pogrzeb Benedykta XVI		0
10	Portuguese (pt) Morte e funeral de Bento XVI		0

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

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