RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Jerzy Radziwiłł

1556 - 1600

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Prince Jerzy Radziwiłł (Lithuanian: Jurgis Radvila; 31 May 1556 – 21 January 1600) was a Polish–Lithuanian magnate and Imperial Reichsfürst from the Radziwiłł family. He was ordained a Catholic priest and later rose through the ranks as Bishop of Vilnius eventually becoming a cardinal. He was a close friend and adviser of King Sigismund III and represented his interests in front of the Pope. Raised a Calvinist, Radziwiłł was educated at the University of Leipzig. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jerzy Radziwiłł is the 1,728th most popular religious figure (down from 1,528th in 2019), the 64th most popular biography from Lithuania (down from 57th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Lithuanian Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Jerzy Radziwiłł ranks 1,728 out of 3,187. Before him are James Gibbons, Dashrath Manjhi, Lubaba bint al-Harith, Marie of the Incarnation, Antonios Naguib, and João I of Kongo. After him are Hōjō Ujimasa, Paul Gallagher, Peter Schöffer, Ludwig Müller, Teodolfo Mertel, and John I of Antioch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1556, Jerzy Radziwiłł ranks 11. Before him are Adriaen de Vries, Paul Bril, Otto van Veen, Jan Joosten van Lodensteijn, Uesugi Kagekatsu, and Jeanne de Lestonnac. After him are Tōdō Takatora, Otto Henry, Count Palatine of Sulzbach, Abdul Rahim Khan-I-Khana, Philipp Nicolai, Isaac Oliver, and George Peele. Among people deceased in 1600, Jerzy Radziwiłł ranks 14. Before him are Luis de Molina, Enrique of Malacca, Gaspar de Lemos, Margrave Andrew of Burgau, Ōtani Yoshitsugu, and Charles I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld. After him are Edward Fortunatus, Lourenço Marques, Joris Hoefnagel, Balthasar Russow, Robert de Nola, and Bâkî.

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In Lithuania

Among people born in Lithuania, Jerzy Radziwiłł ranks 64 out of 328. Before him are Uljana Semjonova (1952), Hermann Sudermann (1857), Elazar Shach (1898), Antanas Merkys (1887), Rolandas Paksas (1956), and Branislaw Tarashkyevich (1892). After him are Janusz Radziwiłł (1612), Joseph Klausner (1874), Nina Schenk Gräfin von Stauffenberg (1913), Kazimira Prunskienė (1943), Laurence Harvey (1928), and Donatas Banionis (1924).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Lithuania

Among religious figures born in Lithuania, Jerzy Radziwiłł ranks 3. Before him are Audrys Bačkis (1937), and Elazar Shach (1898). After him are Sigitas Tamkevičius (1938), Jurgis Matulaitis-Matulevičius (1871), Raphael Kalinowski (1835), Maironis (1862), Henryk Gulbinowicz (1923), Vincentas Sladkevičius (1920), and Ignaty Krachkovsky (1883).

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