RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Darío Castrillón Hoyos

1929 - 2018

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Darío del Niño Jesús Castrillón Hoyos (4 July 1929 – 18 May 2018) was a Colombian cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy from 1996 to 2006 and President of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei from 2000 until his retirement in 2009. He was made a cardinal in 1998. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Darío Castrillón Hoyos is the 1,402nd most popular religious figure (up from 1,705th in 2019), the 25th most popular biography from Colombia (up from 39th in 2019) and the most popular Colombian Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Darío Castrillón Hoyos ranks 1,402 out of 3,187Before him are Joachim Meisner, Jozef Tomko, Dom Justo Takayama, Reinhard Marx, Ad-Darazi, and Ibn Shihab az-Zuhri. After him are Peter Nolasco, John X of Antioch, Hegesippus, John de Britto, Luigi Carlo Borromeo, and Frederick William Franz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Darío Castrillón Hoyos ranks 138Before him are Fred Phelps, Fazlur Rahman Khan, Menahem Golan, Dina bint Abdul-Hamid, Betty Boothroyd, and Jaakko Hintikka. After him are Charles Moore, Vladimír Menšík, Robert Faurisson, Walter Brandmüller, Luis García Meza, and Alexis Weissenberg. Among people deceased in 2018, Darío Castrillón Hoyos ranks 104Before him are Samir Amin, Oskar Gröning, Nicole Fontaine, Paul Andreu, Bruno Sammartino, and Kira Muratova. After him are Ermanno Olmi, Big Van Vader, Margot Kidder, Belisario Betancur, Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, and Raymond Chow.

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In Colombia

Among people born in Colombia, Darío Castrillón Hoyos ranks 25 out of 356Before him are Luis Garavito (1957), Rafael Orozco Maestre (1954), Radamel Falcao (1986), Francisco de Paula Santander (1792), Virgilio Barco Vargas (1921), and Julio César Turbay Ayala (1916). After him are John Leguizamo (1964), Belisario Betancur (1923), Álvaro Mutis (1923), Ernesto Samper (1950), Rodrigo Lara (1946), and Manuel Marulanda (1930).

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Colombia

Among religious figures born in Colombia, Darío Castrillón Hoyos ranks 1After him are José de Jesús Pimiento Rodríguez (1919), Laura Montoya (1874), Rubén Salazar Gómez (1942), and Pedro Rubiano Sáenz (1932).