Priest

Quality:

Priest - person who consecrates his life to some divinity and whose main functions are to direct religious rites and offer sacrifices to the divinity (for a minister use Christian minister). Article “Priest” in Simple English Wikipedia has 12.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 0 references and 4 sections.

This article has the best quality in German 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 5891^st most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 5010^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 6813^th most popular in AI.

Since the creation of article “Priest”, its content was written by 36 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (5010^th place) and edited by 3097 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (6813^th place).

The article is cited 784 times in Simple English Wikipedia (758^th place) and cited 95532 times in all languages (1519^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #226 in February 2022
• Global: #400 in October 2012

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #1425 in June 2022
• Global: #5017 in May 2011

There are 51 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	German (de) Priester		90.0962
2	English (en) Priest		75.6659
3	Portuguese (pt) Sacerdote		57.7151
4	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Prest		51.0524
5	Catalan (ca) Sacerdot		44.9645
6	Finnish (fi) Pappi		44.8893
7	Hungarian (hu) Pap (hivatás)		40.5896
8	Lithuanian (lt) Šventikas		39.7402
9	Hebrew (he) כהן (איש דת)		37.9546
10	Czech (cs) Kněz		37.7162

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Priest		6 203 263
2	Spanish (es) Sacerdote		2 573 901
3	Russian (ru) Священник		1 248 613
4	Portuguese (pt) Sacerdote		918 401
5	Chinese (zh) 祭司		822 618
6	German (de) Priester		798 945
7	Dutch (nl) Priester		449 974
8	French (fr) Prêtre		437 445
9	Arabic (ar) قس		420 712
10	Italian (it) Sacerdote		412 184

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) Priest		10 738
2	Russian (ru) Священник		3 356
3	Spanish (es) Sacerdote		2 344
4	Chinese (zh) 祭司		1 621
5	German (de) Priester		1 415
6	French (fr) Prêtre		1 011
7	Persian (fa) کشیش		990
8	Portuguese (pt) Sacerdote		911
9	Czech (cs) Kněz		703
10	Dutch (nl) Priester		673

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Priest		777
2	German (de) Priester		243
3	Spanish (es) Sacerdote		183
4	Dutch (nl) Priester		139
5	Italian (it) Sacerdote		129
6	Russian (ru) Священник		114
7	French (fr) Prêtre		111
8	Finnish (fi) Pappi		81
9	Portuguese (pt) Sacerdote		79
10	Czech (cs) Kněz		74

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	Romanian (ro) Preot		4
2	English (en) Priest		3
3	Serbian (sr) Свештеник		2
4	Catalan (ca) Sacerdot		1
5	German (de) Priester		1
6	Basque (eu) Apaiz		1
7	Persian (fa) کشیش		1
8	Korean (ko) 사제		1
9	Arabic (ar) قس		0
10	Azerbaijani (az) Keşiş		0

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

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