Benedictus XVI

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Benedict XVI - 265 pope of the Catholic Church from 2005 to 2013 (1927–2022). This person is the 254^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of people and the 668^th most popular person in Finnish Wikipedia. Article “Benedictus XVI” in Finnish Wikipedia has 95.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 149 references and 37 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:

Finnish Wikipedia:

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The 2388^th most popular in Finnish Wikipedia.

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The 574^th most editable in Finnish Wikipedia.

The 668^th most popular in people in Finnish Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 678^th most popular in all topics.

The 101^st most popular in AI.

The 254^th most popular in people.

Achievements in the last month:

Finnish Wikipedia:

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The 6144^th most popular in Finnish Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 1851^st most popular in all topics in the last month.

The 368^th most popular in AI in the last month.

Since the creation of article “Benedictus XVI”, its content was written by 155 registered users of Finnish Wikipedia (574^th place) and edited by 11910 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (101^st place).

Benedict XVI is on the 668^th place in local ranking of people in Finnish Wikipedia and on the 254^th place in global ranking of people in all the time.

The article is cited 486 times in Finnish Wikipedia and cited 56298 times in all languages (2869^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Finnish): #3 in April 2005
• Global: #2 in February 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Finnish): #12 in April 2025
• Global: #3 in April 2025

There are 53 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) Benedikt XVI.		100
2	Croatian (hr) Benedikt XVI.		100
3	Malay (ms) Paus Benedictus XVI		100
4	Dutch (nl) Paus Benedictus XVI		99.0177
5	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Benedikt XVI		96.0872
6	Finnish (fi) Benedictus XVI		95.4825
7	Portuguese (pt) Papa Bento XVI		95.2065
8	Spanish (es) Benedicto XVI		95.0905
9	French (fr) Benoît XVI		95.0689
10	Indonesian (id) Paus Benediktus XVI		94.8614

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Pope Benedict XVI		42 861 490
2	Spanish (es) Benedicto XVI		14 086 655
3	German (de) Benedikt XVI.		11 028 563
4	Italian (it) Papa Benedetto XVI		8 982 968
5	French (fr) Benoît XVI		6 128 797
6	Polish (pl) Benedykt XVI		5 389 056
7	Portuguese (pt) Papa Bento XVI		5 236 238
8	Russian (ru) Бенедикт XVI		3 304 186
9	Japanese (ja) ベネディクト16世 (ローマ教皇)		2 279 943
10	Dutch (nl) Paus Benedictus XVI		1 755 939

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 Benedict XVI		133 869
2	Spanish (es) Benedicto XVI		34 212
3	Italian (it) Papa Benedetto XVI		25 975
4	German (de) Benedikt XVI.		22 286
5	Portuguese (pt) Papa Bento XVI		15 104
6	French (fr) Benoît XVI		14 577
7	Russian (ru) Бенедикт XVI		11 743
8	Polish (pl) Benedykt XVI		9 408
9	Japanese (ja) ベネディクト16世 (ローマ教皇)		8 666
10	Chinese (zh) 本篤十六世		6 315

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

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Pope Benedict XVI		2 955
2	German (de) Benedikt XVI.		1 436
3	French (fr) Benoît XVI		863
4	Italian (it) Papa Benedetto XVI		852
5	Spanish (es) Benedicto XVI		781
6	Polish (pl) Benedykt XVI		552
7	Dutch (nl) Paus Benedictus XVI		388
8	Portuguese (pt) Papa Bento XVI		380
9	Russian (ru) Бенедикт XVI		312
10	Japanese (ja) ベネディクト16世 (ローマ教皇)		206

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 Benedetto XVI		31
2	English (en) Pope Benedict XVI		17
3	Spanish (es) Benedicto XVI		9
4	German (de) Benedikt XVI.		6
5	Polish (pl) Benedykt XVI		5
6	Russian (ru) Бенедикт XVI		4
7	Chinese (zh) 本篤十六世		4
8	Dutch (nl) Paus Benedictus XVI		3
9	Portuguese (pt) Papa Bento XVI		3
10	Croatian (hr) Benedikt XVI.		2

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

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