Pope John Paul II

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John Paul II - 264th pope of the Catholic Church (1978–2005). This person is the 191^st most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 101^st most popular person in Simple English Wikipedia. Article “Pope John Paul II” in Simple English Wikipedia has 94.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 61 references and 13 sections.

This article has the best quality in French 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 979^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 249^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

The 101^st most popular in people in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 504^th most popular in all topics.

The 91^st most popular in AI.

The 191^st most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 984^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1302^nd most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 1658^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Pope John Paul II”, its content was written by 155 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (249^th place) and edited by 12326 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (91^st place).

John Paul II is on the 101^st place in local ranking of people in Simple English Wikipedia and on the 191^st place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 450 times in Simple English Wikipedia (5976^th place) and cited 108904 times in all languages (1278^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #2 in April 2005
• Global: #1 in April 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #13 in May 2025
• Global: #4 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, 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	French (fr) Jean-Paul II		100
2	Portuguese (pt) Papa João Paulo II		100
3	Indonesian (id) Paus Yohanes Paulus II		100
4	Malay (ms) Paus Ioannes Paulus II		100
5	German (de) Johannes Paul II.		98.5391
6	Finnish (fi) Johannes Paavali II		98.3025
7	Czech (cs) Jan Pavel II.		96.3824
8	Hungarian (hu) II. János Pál pápa		96.1587
9	Catalan (ca) Joan Pau II		95
10	Simple English (simple) Pope John Paul II		94.0743

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Pope John Paul II		40 550 724
2	Polish (pl) Jan Paweł II		22 808 883
3	Spanish (es) Juan Pablo II		18 783 018
4	Italian (it) Papa Giovanni Paolo II		10 893 641
5	German (de) Johannes Paul II.		6 791 104
6	French (fr) Jean-Paul II		5 995 412
7	Portuguese (pt) Papa João Paulo II		5 734 614
8	Russian (ru) Иоанн Павел II		3 093 250
9	Japanese (ja) ヨハネ・パウロ2世 (ローマ教皇)		2 358 053
10	Dutch (nl) Paus Johannes Paulus II		1 384 595

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 John Paul II		129 641
2	Spanish (es) Juan Pablo II		76 362
3	Polish (pl) Jan Paweł II		27 188
4	Italian (it) Papa Giovanni Paolo II		23 786
5	German (de) Johannes Paul II.		17 858
6	French (fr) Jean-Paul II		15 181
7	Portuguese (pt) Papa João Paulo II		12 371
8	Russian (ru) Иоанн Павел II		10 486
9	Japanese (ja) ヨハネ・パウロ2世 (ローマ教皇)		6 098
10	Chinese (zh) 若望保祿二世		5 092

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Pope John Paul II		3 458
2	German (de) Johannes Paul II.		983
3	Polish (pl) Jan Paweł II		873
4	Italian (it) Papa Giovanni Paolo II		862
5	French (fr) Jean-Paul II		832
6	Spanish (es) Juan Pablo II		724
7	Portuguese (pt) Papa João Paulo II		369
8	Dutch (nl) Paus Johannes Paulus II		356
9	Russian (ru) Иоанн Павел II		307
10	Chinese (zh) 若望保祿二世		220

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) Pope John Paul II		17
2	Catalan (ca) Joan Pau II		3
3	Polish (pl) Jan Paweł II		3
4	Spanish (es) Juan Pablo II		2
5	French (fr) Jean-Paul II		2
6	Hungarian (hu) II. János Pál pápa		2
7	Japanese (ja) ヨハネ・パウロ2世 (ローマ教皇)		2
8	Romanian (ro) Papa Ioan Paul al II-lea		2
9	Russian (ru) Иоанн Павел II		2
10	Slovak (sk) Ján Pavol II.		2

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

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