RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Adolfo Suárez Rivera

1927 - 2008

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Adolfo Antonio Suárez Rivera (9 January 1927 – 22 March 2008) was a Mexican cardinal in the Catholic Church who also served as Bishop of Tepic, Tlalnepantla and Archbishop of Monterrey. Suárez Rivera studied classical literature at the conciliar seminary of Chiapas in San Cristóbal, where he was ordained a priest in 1952, and then philosophy at the archdiocesan seminary of Xalapa and the Pontifical Seminary of Montezuma in Montezuma, New Mexico, in the United States. After these studies, he completed a doctorate in theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. Suárez Rivera worked for about ten years as a professor of classical literature and philosophy at the diocesan seminary of San Cristóbal de las Casas, then was a department head and secretary in the Archdiocesan Curia. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Adolfo Suárez Rivera is the 2,111th most popular religious figure (up from 2,636th in 2019), the 150th most popular biography from Mexico (up from 254th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Mexican Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Adolfo Suárez Rivera ranks 2,111 out of 3,187. Before him are Berhaneyesus Demerew Souraphiel, Arsenios Autoreianos, Bernard Agré, Ursus of Solothurn, Trifko Grabež, and Marco Antonio de Dominis. After him are Zara Yaqob, Roger Deakins, Pierre Robert Olivétan, Anthimus VI of Constantinople, Flavio Chigi, and Gregorio Rosa Chávez.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Adolfo Suárez Rivera ranks 194. Before him are Patti Page, Per Oscarsson, Florencio Campomanes, Éva Székely, Vladimir Kuts, and Gary Bertini. After him are Jack Cassidy, Bernard Fox, Jacob Veldhuyzen van Zanten, Josy Barthel, Mirtha Legrand, and Henning Carlsen. Among people deceased in 2008, Adolfo Suárez Rivera ranks 144. Before him are Tommy Lapid, Josef Tal, Emmanuel Sanon, Andrew Bertie, Nonna Mordyukova, and Robert Mulligan. After him are Stan Winston, Prince Ferdinand, Duke of Castro, Francis Pym, Douglas Bennett, Sven Davidson, and Andrew M. Gleason.

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In Mexico

Among people born in Mexico, Adolfo Suárez Rivera ranks 150 out of 729. Before him are Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo (1926), Bernard Francis Law (1931), Ignacio Comonfort (1812), Francisco S. Carvajal (1870), Carlos Aguiar Retes (1950), and José Vasconcelos (1882). After him are José José (1948), Joaquin Murrieta (1829), Susana Dosamantes (1948), Demián Bichir (1963), José Joaquín de Herrera (1792), and Adriana Barraza (1956).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Mexico

Among religious figures born in Mexico, Adolfo Suárez Rivera ranks 11. Before him are Juan Sandoval Íñiguez (1933), Tlacaelel (1397), Francisco Robles Ortega (1949), Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo (1926), Bernard Francis Law (1931), and Carlos Aguiar Retes (1950). After him are Javier Lozano Barragán (1933), Alberto Suárez Inda (1939), Miguel Pro (1891), Norberto Rivera Carrera (1942), Ernesto Corripio y Ahumada (1919), and María Guadalupe García Zavala (1878).

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