RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Giovanni Canestri

1918 - 2015

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Giovanni Canestri (30 September 1918 – 29 April 2015) was an Italian Catholic cardinal, who served as Archbishop of Cagliari from 1984 until 1987 and as Archbishop of Genoa from 1987 until 1995. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Giovanni Canestri is the 2,035th most popular religious figure (up from 2,339th in 2019), the 2,647th most popular biography from Italy (up from 3,222nd in 2019) and the 456th most popular Italian Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Giovanni Canestri ranks 2,035 out of 3,187Before him are Cassian of Imola, Alexandre José Maria dos Santos, Janaka, Giuseppe Maria Tomasi, Abdelhamid Ben Badis, and Jean-Pierre Ricard. After him are Dorotheus of Tyre, Onufriy, Anthimus VII of Constantinople, Sabbas the Goth, Hâfiz Osman, and Theophan the Recluse.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Giovanni Canestri ranks 137Before him are Willi Graf, Hella Haasse, Aldo van Eyck, Shankar Dayal Sharma, Humaira Begum, and George Mosse. After him are Abraham Robinson, Joseph Wiseman, Mickey Spillane, Émile Derlin Zinsou, Gottfried von Einem, and Suzanne Flon. Among people deceased in 2015, Giovanni Canestri ranks 160Before him are Ján Chryzostom Korec, Eileen Essell, Judith Malina, Elena Obraztsova, Jeralean Talley, and Nicholas Liverpool. After him are Wim Ruska, Nek Chand, Erik De Vlaeminck, Percy Sledge, Adrian Frutiger, and Clifford Edmund Bosworth.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giovanni Canestri ranks 2,647 out of 5,161Before him are Luigi Villoresi (1909), Alvise Pisani (1664), Vittoria Aleotti (1575), Daniele De Rossi (1983), Laura Martinozzi (1639), and Fiorenzo Magni (1920). After him are Moderata Fonte (1555), Vasco Rossi (1952), Francesco Granacci (1469), Giangiacomo Feltrinelli (1926), Riccardo Morandi (1902), and Leopoldo Trieste (1917).

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Italy

Among religious figures born in Italy, Giovanni Canestri ranks 456Before him are Corrado Bafile (1903), Virgilio Noè (1922), John Leonardi (1541), Juliana Falconieri (1270), Enrico Dante (1884), and Pietro Ottoboni (1667). After him are Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo (1925), Guido Marini (1965), Elia Dalla Costa (1872), Salvatore De Giorgi (1930), Paolo Romeo (1938), and Giovanni de' Medici (1543).