Pope Francis

Quality:

Pope Francis - 266th pope of the Catholic Church (1936–2025). This person is the 120^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 44^th most popular person in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Pope Francis” in Simple English Wikipedia has 85 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 97 references and 19 sections.

This article has the best quality in Spanish Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 404^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 577^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 44^th most popular in people in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 323^rd most popular in all topics.

The 301^st most popular in AI.

The 120^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 407^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 609^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 231^st most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Pope Francis”, its content was written by 107 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (577^th place) and edited by 9347 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (301^st place).

Pope Francis is on the 44^th place in local ranking of people in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 120^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 341 times in Simple English Wikipedia (8916^th place) and cited 64879 times in all languages (2525^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1 in March 2013
• Global: #1 in April 2025

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #7 in May 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, 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	Spanish (es) Francisco (papa)		100
2	German (de) Franziskus (Papst)		100
3	Indonesian (id) Paus Fransiskus		100
4	Slovak (sk) František (pápež)		100
5	Slovenian (sl) Papež Frančišek		100
6	Latin (la) Franciscus (papa)		100
7	English (en) Pope Francis		97.0611
8	Polish (pl) Franciszek (papież)		96.8866
9	Dutch (nl) Paus Franciscus		96.4706
10	Czech (cs) František (papež)		96.457

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Pope Francis		57 865 002
2	Spanish (es) Francisco (papa)		22 880 649
3	Italian (it) Papa Francesco		11 902 106
4	German (de) Franziskus (Papst)		8 222 842
5	French (fr) François (pape)		7 763 379
6	Polish (pl) Franciszek (papież)		7 232 960
7	Portuguese (pt) Papa Francisco		6 271 597
8	Russian (ru) Франциск (папа римский)		5 233 872
9	Japanese (ja) フランシスコ (ローマ教皇)		2 393 860
10	Chinese (zh) 方濟各 (教宗)		2 028 055

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		235 416
2	Spanish (es) Francisco (papa)		74 584
3	Italian (it) Papa Francesco		48 641
4	Russian (ru) Франциск (папа римский)		25 957
5	German (de) Franziskus (Papst)		25 619
6	French (fr) François (pape)		25 383
7	Portuguese (pt) Papa Francisco		24 578
8	Polish (pl) Franciszek (papież)		15 527
9	Chinese (zh) 方濟各 (教宗)		14 546
10	Japanese (ja) フランシスコ (ローマ教皇)		13 708

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		2 238
2	Spanish (es) Francisco (papa)		792
3	German (de) Franziskus (Papst)		780
4	French (fr) François (pape)		678
5	Italian (it) Papa Francesco		580
6	Polish (pl) Franciszek (papież)		404
7	Portuguese (pt) Papa Francisco		304
8	Russian (ru) Франциск (папа римский)		298
9	Dutch (nl) Paus Franciscus		271
10	Chinese (zh) 方濟各 (教宗)		224

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	Italian (it) Papa Francesco		31
2	English (en) Pope Francis		16
3	Spanish (es) Francisco (papa)		7
4	Russian (ru) Франциск (папа римский)		6
5	French (fr) François (pape)		5
6	Chinese (zh) 方濟各 (教宗)		5
7	German (de) Franziskus (Papst)		4
8	Portuguese (pt) Papa Francisco		4
9	Indonesian (id) Paus Fransiskus		3
10	Japanese (ja) フランシスコ (ローマ教皇)		3

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

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