The Most Famous
RELIGIOUS FIGURES from Puerto Rico
This page contains a list of the greatest Puerto Rican Religious Figures. The pantheon dataset contains 3,187 Religious Figures, 1 of which were born in Puerto Rico. This makes Puerto Rico the birth place of the 133rd most number of Religious Figures behind Cabo Verde, and Kenya.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Puerto Rican Religious Figures of all time. This list of famous Puerto Rican Religious Figures is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
1. Luis Aponte Martínez (1922 - 2012)
With an HPI of 55.60, Luis Aponte Martínez is the most famous Puerto Rican Religious Figure. His biography has been translated into 19 different languages on wikipedia.
Luis Aponte Martínez (August 4, 1922 – April 10, 2012) was a Puerto Rican Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of San Juan from 1965 to 1999. He is the only Puerto Rican to have been named a cardinal of the Catholic Church. He participated as an elector in the two conclaves of 1978, which elected Popes John Paul I and John Paul II.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Puerto Rican religious figures born between 1922 and 1922. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Puerto Rican religious figures include Luis Aponte Martínez. As of April 2024, 1 new Puerto Rican religious figures have been added to Pantheon including Luis Aponte Martínez.
