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Gabriele Amorth

1925 - 2016

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Gabriele Amorth (Italian: [ɡabriˈɛːle ˈaːmort]; 1 May 1925 – 16 September 2016) was an Italian Catholic priest of the Paulines and an exorcist for the Diocese of Rome. Amorth, along with five other priests, founded the International Association of Exorcists. His work in demonology and exorcism gained him international recognition. Over the course of his career, Father Amorth claimed to have performed tens of thousands of exorcisms, at least 60,000, and became one of the most prominent and controversial figures in the Catholic Church in the modern era. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gabriele Amorth is the 631st most popular writer (down from 513th in 2019), the 803rd most popular biography from Italy (down from 654th in 2019) and the 50th most popular Italian Writer.

Gabriele Amorth is an Italian Roman Catholic priest and exorcist. He claims to have performed tens of thousands of exorcisms in his lifetime. He was the president of the International Association of Exorcists from 1991 to 2000.

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Among writers, Gabriele Amorth ranks 631 out of 7,302. Before him are Francisco de Quevedo, Poliziano, Patricia Highsmith, Franz Werfel, André Chénier, and Kumārajīva. After him are Kōbō Abe, Meera, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Aratus, and A. J. Cronin.

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Among people born in 1925, Gabriele Amorth ranks 45. Before him are Oona O'Neill, Peter Brook, Bert Hellinger, Ernst Happel, Rod Steiger, and Jacques Delors. After him are Roy J. Glauber, Luciano Berio, Dick Van Dyke, Anastasio Somoza Debayle, William F. Buckley Jr., and George Kennedy. Among people deceased in 2016, Gabriele Amorth ranks 40. Before him are Elie Wiesel, Jerome Bruner, Kenny Baker, Harry Kroto, Carrie Fisher, and James Cronin. After him are Alvin Toffler, Junko Tabei, Andrzej Żuławski, Frano Selak, George Kennedy, and Vera Rubin.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Gabriele Amorth ranks 803 out of 5,161. Before him are Jacopo Bellini (1396), Gian Galeazzo Sforza (1469), Tarcisius (263), Gigliola Cinquetti (1947), Claudia Octavia (40), and Athalaric (516). After him are Saint Eustace (10), Pompeia (-90), Lino Ventura (1919), Poggio Bracciolini (1380), Louise of Orléans (1812), and Palmiro Togliatti (1893).

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Among WRITERS In Italy

Among writers born in Italy, Gabriele Amorth ranks 50. Before him are Tibullus (-50), Salvatore Quasimodo (1901), Dino Buzzati (1906), Titus Pomponius Atticus (-110), Aulus Gellius (123), and Poliziano (1454). After him are Giambattista Basile (1566), Eugenio Montale (1896), Giacomo Leopardi (1798), Francesca da Rimini (1259), Gaius Valerius Flaccus (45), and Curzio Malaparte (1898).

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