St Matthew Passion

St Matthew Passion - 1727 sacred oratorio by Johann Sebastian Bach. Article “St Matthew Passion” in English Wikipedia has 66.9 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 50 references and 24 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 7.43 points.

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

Since the creation of article “St Matthew Passion”, its content was written by 236 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1411 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1324 times in English Wikipedia and cited 4093 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #9046 in April 2017
• Global: #4541 in March 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #28987 in March 2008
• Global: #12001 in April 2014

There are 33 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	German (de) Matthäus-Passion (J. S. Bach)		96.8367
2	Persian (fa) انجیل به روایت متی (باخ)		96.3227
3	English (en) St Matthew Passion		66.8692
4	Dutch (nl) Matthäus-Passion (J.S. Bach)		49.698
5	Hungarian (hu) Máté-passió		42.715
6	Korean (ko) 마태 수난곡 (바흐)		42.5681
7	Finnish (fi) Matteus-passio (Bach)		42.5422
8	Norwegian (Nynorsk) (nn) Matteuspasjonen av Bach		41.2871
9	Russian (ru) Страсти по Матфею (Бах)		40.572
10	Czech (cs) Matoušovy pašije		31.5479

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

The most popular language versions of the article "St Matthew Passion" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) St Matthew Passion		2 120 025
2	German (de) Matthäus-Passion (J. S. Bach)		1 017 235
3	Japanese (ja) マタイ受難曲		803 159
4	Dutch (nl) Matthäus-Passion (J.S. Bach)		713 914
5	Spanish (es) Pasión según San Mateo		541 021
6	Russian (ru) Страсти по Матфею (Бах)		387 915
7	French (fr) Passion selon saint Matthieu		383 105
8	Italian (it) Passione secondo Matteo		236 397
9	Chinese (zh) 马太受难曲		173 401
10	Polish (pl) Pasja według św. Mateusza (BWV 244)		145 967

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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 "St Matthew Passion" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) St Matthew Passion		5 489
2	Japanese (ja) マタイ受難曲		2 730
3	German (de) Matthäus-Passion (J. S. Bach)		1 770
4	Spanish (es) Pasión según San Mateo		1 112
5	French (fr) Passion selon saint Matthieu		1 037
6	Russian (ru) Страсти по Матфею (Бах)		1 011
7	Dutch (nl) Matthäus-Passion (J.S. Bach)		787
8	Italian (it) Passione secondo Matteo		514
9	Korean (ko) 마태 수난곡 (바흐)		480
10	Chinese (zh) 马太受难曲		438

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

Language versions of the article "St Matthew Passion" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) St Matthew Passion		236
2	German (de) Matthäus-Passion (J. S. Bach)		181
3	Dutch (nl) Matthäus-Passion (J.S. Bach)		179
4	French (fr) Passion selon saint Matthieu		124
5	Italian (it) Passione secondo Matteo		95
6	Japanese (ja) マタイ受難曲		61
7	Spanish (es) Pasión según San Mateo		51
8	Russian (ru) Страсти по Матфею (Бах)		49
9	Finnish (fi) Matteus-passio (Bach)		43
10	Polish (pl) Pasja według św. Mateusza (BWV 244)		39

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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 "St Matthew Passion" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Galician (gl) Paixón segundo San Mateu		1
2	Bulgarian (bg) Матеус пасион		0
3	Catalan (ca) Passió segons sant Mateu		0
4	Czech (cs) Matoušovy pašije		0
5	German (de) Matthäus-Passion (J. S. Bach)		0
6	Greek (el) Κατά Ματθαίον Πάθη (Μπαχ)		0
7	English (en) St Matthew Passion		0
8	Esperanto (eo) Matthäuspassion (Bach)		0
9	Spanish (es) Pasión según San Mateo		0
10	Estonian (et) Matteuse passioon		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 "St Matthew Passion" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) St Matthew Passion		1 324
2	German (de) Matthäus-Passion (J. S. Bach)		777
3	French (fr) Passion selon saint Matthieu		301
4	Dutch (nl) Matthäus-Passion (J.S. Bach)		252
5	Italian (it) Passione secondo Matteo		200
6	Spanish (es) Pasión según San Mateo		199
7	Japanese (ja) マタイ受難曲		167
8	Catalan (ca) Passió segons sant Mateu		127
9	Russian (ru) Страсти по Матфею (Бах)		123
10	Finnish (fi) Matteus-passio (Bach)		62

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#	Language	Value
bg	Bulgarian Матеус пасион
ca	Catalan Passió segons sant Mateu
cs	Czech Matoušovy pašije
de	German Matthäus-Passion (J. S. Bach)
el	Greek Κατά Ματθαίον Πάθη (Μπαχ)
en	English St Matthew Passion
eo	Esperanto Matthäuspassion (Bach)
es	Spanish Pasión según San Mateo
et	Estonian Matteuse passioon
eu	Basque Matthäus-Passion
fa	Persian انجیل به روایت متی (باخ)
fi	Finnish Matteus-passio (Bach)
fr	French Passion selon saint Matthieu
gl	Galician Paixón segundo San Mateu
he	Hebrew מתאוס פסיון
hu	Hungarian Máté-passió
it	Italian Passione secondo Matteo
ja	Japanese マタイ受難曲
ko	Korean 마태 수난곡 (바흐)
la	Latin Passio secundum Matthaeum (Bach)
nl	Dutch Matthäus-Passion (J.S. Bach)
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Matteuspasjonen av Bach
no	Norwegian Matteuspasjonen (Bach)
pl	Polish Pasja według św. Mateusza (BWV 244)
pt	Portuguese Paixão segundo São Mateus, BWV 244
ro	Romanian Patimile după Matei (oratoriu)
ru	Russian Страсти по Матфею (Бах)
simple	Simple English St Matthew Passion
sk	Slovak Matúšove pašie
sv	Swedish Matteuspassionen
uk	Ukrainian Страсті за Матвієм
vi	Vietnamese Matthäus-Passion (Bach)
zh	Chinese 马太受难曲

Best Rank

English: #28987 03.2008

Global: #12001 04.2014

Best Rank

English: #9046 04.2017

Global: #4541 03.2004

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