RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Ivan Dias

1936 - 2017

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Ivan Cornelius Dias (14 April 1936 – 19 June 2017) was an Indian prelate and cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples from 2006 to 2011, Archbishop of Bombay from 1996 to 2006, and before that a papal ambassador in the Balkans, East Asia, and West Africa. He was elevated to the rank of cardinal in 2001. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ivan Dias is the 1,824th most popular religious figure (up from 2,277th in 2019), the 353rd most popular biography from India (up from 473rd in 2019) and the 39th most popular Indian Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Ivan Dias ranks 1,824 out of 3,187. Before him are Abu Bakr ibn al-Arabi, Louis Billot, Henri Schwery, Wiborada, Adolf Bertram, and Maximianus of Ravenna. After him are Herman I of Baden, Luigi Poggi, Agnes of Assisi, Louis Antoine de Noailles, Varkey Vithayathil, and Agobard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Ivan Dias ranks 196. Before him are Ferran Olivella, Antonio María Rouco Varela, Charles Napier, Mala Sinha, Joaquín Navarro-Valls, and Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho. After him are Joe Don Baker, Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez, Glenn Murcutt, José Policarpo, John P. Ryan, and Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino. Among people deceased in 2017, Ivan Dias ranks 172. Before him are Quett Masire, Bayezid Osman, Jean d'Ormesson, Claude Rich, Joaquín Navarro-Valls, and Aleksey Batalov. After him are Umberto Lenzi, Daliah Lavi, Miloslav Vlk, William Peter Blatty, Nadezhda Olizarenko, and James Rosenquist.

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In India

Among people born in India, Ivan Dias ranks 353 out of 1,861. Before him are Mala Sinha (1936), Rani Durgavati (1524), Nargis (1929), Aruna Shanbaug case (1948), Ranbir Kapoor (1982), and Wahiduddin Khan (1925). After him are Varkey Vithayathil (1927), Aamir Khan (1965), Mohammed Rafi (1924), Dnyaneshwar (1275), Shahid Kapoor (1981), and Rattanbai Jinnah (1900).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In India

Among religious figures born in India, Ivan Dias ranks 39. Before him are Zakir Naik (1965), Dashrath Manjhi (1934), Tilopa (928), Saint Alphonsa (1910), Inayat Khan (1882), and Wahiduddin Khan (1925). After him are Varkey Vithayathil (1927), Anandi Gopal Joshi (1865), Joseph Vaz (1651), Swaminarayan (1781), Filipe Neri Ferrão (1953), and Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy (1924).

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