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Angelo Amato

1938 - 2024

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Angelo Amato, S.D.B. (8 June 1938 – 31 December 2024) was an Italian cardinal of the Catholic Church who served as the Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints between 2008 and 2018. He served as Secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith from 2002 to 2008 and became a cardinal in 2010. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Angelo Amato is the 929th most popular religious figure (up from 1,384th in 2019), the 1,239th most popular biography from Italy (up from 2,036th in 2019) and the 304th most popular Italian Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Angelo Amato ranks 929 out of 3,187. Before him are Guru Angad, Ravi Shankar, Angela of Foligno, Raniero Cantalamessa, Lucian of Antioch, and Hélder Câmara. After him are George Alencherry, Abd Manaf ibn Qusai, Reginald Lee, Al-Qurtubi, Anastasius of Persia, and Antipope Gregory VIII.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Angelo Amato ranks 75. Before him are Oleg Gordievsky, Takehiko Kawanishi, Terry Wogan, Georg Baselitz, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, and Etta James. After him are Ayaz Mutallibov, Ryōji Noyori, Marcello Gandini, Murtala Mohammed, Tatsuya Shiji, and Leonardo Boff. Among people deceased in 2024, Angelo Amato ranks 76. Before him are Nguyễn Phú Trọng, Nikolai Ryzhkov, Salvatore Schillaci, Dikembe Mutombo, Andrew Schally, and Ahmed Mohamed Mohamoud. After him are Marcello Gandini, Daniel Dennett, Karl-Heinz Schnellinger, Fraser Stoddart, Gustavo Gutiérrez, and Seiji Ozawa.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Angelo Amato ranks 1,239 out of 5,161. Before him are Giovanni Messe (1883), Francis IV, Duke of Modena (1779), Ferdinando de' Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany (1663), Angela of Foligno (1248), Raniero Cantalamessa (1934), and Ranuccio I Farnese, Duke of Parma (1569). After him are Lucrezia Tornabuoni (1427), Riccardo Patrese (1954), Giampiero Boniperti (1928), Adelaide del Vasto (1072), Bianca Maria Visconti (1425), and Marcello Gandini (1938).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Italy

Among religious figures born in Italy, Angelo Amato ranks 304. Before him are Giuseppe Bertello (1942), Anthony Maria Zaccaria (1502), Giuseppe Moscati (1880), Peter Chrysologus (380), Angela of Foligno (1248), and Raniero Cantalamessa (1934). After him are Anastasius Bibliothecarius (815), Pietro Gasparri (1852), Arnold of Brescia (1100), Romano Guardini (1885), Antipope Christopher (900), and Alfredo Ottaviani (1890).

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