Pope Paul IV

Paul IV - pope of catholic church 1555-1559. Article “Pope Paul IV” in Simple English Wikipedia has 42.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 11 references and 8 sections.

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

Since the creation of article “Pope Paul IV”, its content was written by 12 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 1697 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 157 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 15228 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #450 in August 2012
• Global: #1560 in August 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #14431 in September 2013
• Global: #12881 in April 2025

There are 47 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	Slovenian (sl) Papež Pavel IV.		90.4046
2	English (en) Pope Paul IV		67.1987
3	Estonian (et) Paulus IV		49.757
4	Portuguese (pt) Papa Paulo IV		47.1097
5	Greek (el) Πάπας Παύλος Δ΄		44.8807
6	Simple English (simple) Pope Paul IV		42.7305
7	German (de) Paul IV.		42.6811
8	Italian (it) Papa Paolo IV		42.5769
9	Korean (ko) 교황 바오로 4세		42.2141
10	French (fr) Paul IV		39.839

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Pope Paul IV" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Pope Paul IV		1 404 349
2	Italian (it) Papa Paolo IV		799 841
3	Spanish (es) Paulo IV		481 276
4	French (fr) Paul IV		217 180
5	Russian (ru) Павел IV		213 331
6	Polish (pl) Paweł IV (papież)		205 253
7	German (de) Paul IV.		198 269
8	Portuguese (pt) Papa Paulo IV		176 395
9	Dutch (nl) Paus Paulus IV		64 858
10	Japanese (ja) パウルス4世 (ローマ教皇)		55 086

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Pope Paul IV" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Pope Paul IV		5 900
2	Italian (it) Papa Paolo IV		2 890
3	Spanish (es) Paulo IV		2 068
4	German (de) Paul IV.		1 318
5	French (fr) Paul IV		753
6	Russian (ru) Павел IV		740
7	Portuguese (pt) Papa Paulo IV		645
8	Polish (pl) Paweł IV (papież)		464
9	Chinese (zh) 保祿四世		196
10	Japanese (ja) パウルス4世 (ローマ教皇)		187

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

Language versions of the article "Pope Paul IV" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Pope Paul IV		250
2	Italian (it) Papa Paolo IV		187
3	German (de) Paul IV.		167
4	French (fr) Paul IV		116
5	Spanish (es) Paulo IV		105
6	Russian (ru) Павел IV		83
7	Polish (pl) Paweł IV (papież)		67
8	Dutch (nl) Paus Paulus IV		65
9	Portuguese (pt) Papa Paulo IV		63
10	Hungarian (hu) IV. Pál pápa		46

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

Language versions of the article "Pope Paul IV" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	French (fr) Paul IV		3
2	German (de) Paul IV.		2
3	English (en) Pope Paul IV		2
4	Spanish (es) Paulo IV		2
5	Arabic (ar) بولس الرابع		1
6	Czech (cs) Pavel IV.		1
7	Basque (eu) Paulo IV.a		1
8	Portuguese (pt) Papa Paulo IV		1
9	Azerbaijani (az) IV Pavel		0
10	Belarusian (be) Павел IV		0

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

Language versions of the article "Pope Paul IV" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Pope Paul IV		919
2	Italian (it) Papa Paolo IV		904
3	French (fr) Paul IV		658
4	Polish (pl) Paweł IV (papież)		552
5	Russian (ru) Павел IV		551
6	Portuguese (pt) Papa Paulo IV		547
7	Dutch (nl) Paus Paulus IV		443
8	Catalan (ca) Papa Pau IV		428
9	Ukrainian (uk) Павло IV		344
10	Czech (cs) Pavel IV.		337

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic بولس الرابع
az	Azerbaijani IV Pavel
be	Belarusian Павел IV
bg	Bulgarian Павел IV
ca	Catalan Papa Pau IV
cs	Czech Pavel IV.
da	Danish Pave Paul 4.
de	German Paul IV.
el	Greek Πάπας Παύλος Δ΄
en	English Pope Paul IV
eo	Esperanto Paŭlo la 4-a
es	Spanish Paulo IV
et	Estonian Paulus IV
eu	Basque Paulo IV.a
fa	Persian پاپ پل چهارم
fi	Finnish Paavali IV
fr	French Paul IV
gl	Galician Paulo IV, papa
he	Hebrew פאולוס הרביעי
hr	Croatian Pavao IV.
hu	Hungarian IV. Pál pápa
id	Indonesian Paus Paulus IV
it	Italian Papa Paolo IV
ja	Japanese パウルス4世 (ローマ教皇)
ka	Georgian პავლე IV (პაპი)
ko	Korean 교황 바오로 4세
la	Latin Paulus IV
lt	Lithuanian Paulius IV
ms	Malay Paus Paulus IV
nl	Dutch Paus Paulus IV
no	Norwegian Paul IV
pl	Polish Paweł IV (papież)
pt	Portuguese Papa Paulo IV
ro	Romanian Papa Paul al IV-lea
ru	Russian Павел IV
sh	Serbo-Croatian Pavao IV
simple	Simple English Pope Paul IV
sk	Slovak Pavol IV. (pápež)
sl	Slovenian Papež Pavel IV.
sr	Serbian Папа Павле IV
sv	Swedish Paulus IV
tr	Turkish IV. Paulus
uk	Ukrainian Павло IV
ur	Urdu پال چہارم
vi	Vietnamese Giáo hoàng Phaolô IV
zh	Chinese 保祿四世
zhminnan	Min Nan Kàu-hông Paulus 4-sè

Best Rank

Simple English: #14431 09.2013

Global: #12881 04.2025

Best Rank

Simple English: #450 08.2012

Global: #1560 08.2012

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