The Most Famous
RELIGIOUS FIGURES from Guinea
This page contains a list of the greatest Guinean Religious Figures. The pantheon dataset contains 3,187 Religious Figures, 1 of which were born in Guinea. This makes Guinea the birth place of the 111th most number of Religious Figures behind Senegal, and Qatar.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Guinean Religious Figures of all time. This list of famous Guinean Religious Figures is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
1. Robert Sarah (b. 1945)
With an HPI of 74.98, Robert Sarah is the most famous Guinean Religious Figure. His biography has been translated into 36 different languages on wikipedia.
Robert Sarah ([ʁɔbɛʁ saʁa]; born 15 June 1945) is a Guinean Catholic prelate who served as prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments from 23 November 2014 to 20 February 2021. He previously served as secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples under Pope John Paul II and president of the Pontifical Council Cor Unum under Pope Benedict XVI. He was made a cardinal in 2010. Following the death of Pope Francis in 2025, Sarah was mentioned as a papabile, a leading candidate for the papacy, by international media outlets such as Le Monde and The Guardian, and by Catholic publications including Crux and the Catholic Herald.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Guinean religious figures born between 1945 and 1945. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Guinean religious figures include Robert Sarah. As of April 2024, 1 new Guinean religious figures have been added to Pantheon including Robert Sarah.
