RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Fausto Sozzini

1539 - 1604

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Fausto Paolo Sozzini (Italian: [ˈfausto ˈpaːolo sotˈtsiːni]; Polish: Faust Socyn; 5 December 1539 – 4 March 1604), often known in English by his Latinized name Faustus Socinus ( FAW-stəs soh-SY-nəs), was an Italian Renaissance humanist and theologian, and, alongside his uncle Lelio Sozzini, founder of the Nontrinitarian Christian belief system known as Socinianism. His doctrine was developed among the Polish Brethren in the Polish Reformed Church between the 16th and 17th centuries, and embraced by the Unitarian Church of Transylvania during the same period. Fausto Sozzini recollected most of his uncle Lelio's religious writings by traveling over again his routes throughout early modern Europe, and systematized his Antitrinitarian beliefs into a coherent theological doctrine. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Fausto Sozzini is the 1,102nd most popular religious figure (down from 1,061st in 2019), the 1,491st most popular biography from Italy (up from 1,567th in 2019) and the 333rd most popular Italian Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Fausto Sozzini ranks 1,102 out of 3,187. Before him are Abu Darda, Piruz Nahavandi, Josip Bozanić, Abd al-Rahman ibn Muljam, Eustathius of Antioch, and Jacques Paul Migne. After him are Martin of Braga, Joseph II of Constantinople, Karekin II, Rahotep, Fridolin Ambongo Besungu, and Gerard Majella.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1539, Fausto Sozzini ranks 4. Before him are Alessandro Valignano, Federico Zuccari, and Inca Garcilaso de la Vega. After him are Archduchess Barbara of Austria, Catherine Vasa of Sweden, Elisabeth of Hesse, Electress Palatine, Louis VI, Elector Palatine, Giovanni Andrea Doria, Louis Gonzaga, Duke of Nevers, George Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, and Chōsokabe Motochika. Among people deceased in 1604, Fausto Sozzini ranks 3. Before him are Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, and Catherine de Bourbon. After him are Claudio Merulo, Ercole, Lord of Monaco, Peter Ernst I von Mansfeld-Vorderort, John I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, Christine of Hesse, Juan Fernández, Otto Henry, Count Palatine of Sulzbach, Hamida Banu Begum, and Louis IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Marburg.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Fausto Sozzini ranks 1,491 out of 5,161. Before him are Giovanni Verga (1840), Franco Alfano (1875), Luigi Facta (1861), Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus (-49), Andrea Dandolo (1306), and Milo Manara (1945). After him are Valentino Mazzola (1919), Giuseppe Saragat (1898), Lucifer of Cagliari (201), Alessandro Nesta (1976), Matteo Maria Boiardo (1441), and Julia Drusilla (39).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Italy

Among religious figures born in Italy, Fausto Sozzini ranks 333. Before him are Saint Susanna (280), Saint Marcella (325), Saint Chrysogonus (250), Mary Magdalene de' Pazzi (1566), Ippolito de' Medici (1511), and Paolo Giovio (1483). After him are Lucifer of Cagliari (201), Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows (1838), Beniamino Stella (1941), Gianna Beretta Molla (1922), Pierbattista Pizzaballa (1965), and Henry Benedict Stuart (1725).

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