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John Neumann

1811 - 1860

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John Nepomucene Neumann (German: Johann Nepomuk Neumann, Czech: Jan Nepomucký Neumann, Latin: Ioannes Nepomucenus Neumann; March 28, 1811 – January 5, 1860) was a Bohemian-born American prelate of the Catholic Church. An immigrant from Bohemia, he came to the United States in 1836, where he was ordained, joined the Redemptorist order, and became the fourth Bishop of Philadelphia in 1852. In Philadelphia, Neumann founded the first Catholic diocesan school system in the US. Canonized in 1977, he is the only male US citizen to be named a saint. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Neumann is the 2,728th most popular religious figure (down from 2,604th in 2019), the 600th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 594th in 2019) and the 20th most popular Czech Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, John Neumann ranks 2,728 out of 3,187. Before him are Vicente Enrique y Tarancón, Ignatius Brianchaninov, Euzois of Byzantium, Christian Ferdinand Friedrich Hochstetter, Zoltan Sarosy, and Ísleifur Gissurarson. After him are Angelo Maria Querini, Wilfrid Napier, Patrick Abercrombie, Nicola Saggio, Nicetas I of Constantinople, and Leonid Stadnyk.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1811, John Neumann ranks 61. Before him are James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin, François Delsarte, Dimitrija Demeter, Johann Georg von Hahn, Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler, and James Hall. After him are Katarina Ivanović, Judah P. Benjamin, Diomidis Kyriakos, Hugh Edwin Strickland, Victor Duruy, and Henry Liddell. Among people deceased in 1860, John Neumann ranks 55. Before him are Nicolaas Pieneman, Andreas Metaxas, Konstantin Aksakov, Ludwig Bechstein, Honoré Charles Reille, and Christian Ferdinand Friedrich Hochstetter. After him are Sergei Petrovich Trubetskoy, Juan Rafael Mora Porras, Carl Edvard Rotwitt, Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann, Francisco Ruiz-Tagle, and William Martin Leake.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, John Neumann ranks 600 out of 1,200. Before him are Petr Nečas (1964), Karel Kachyňa (1924), Jakub Jan Ryba (1765), Alfred Roller (1864), Ivan Olbracht (1882), and Jaroslav Holík (1942). After him are Eliška Krásnohorská (1847), Martin Frič (1902), Jiří Skobla (1930), Patrik Ouředník (1957), František Langer (1888), and Jan Černý (1874).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Czechia

Among religious figures born in Czechia, John Neumann ranks 20. Before him are Josef Beran (1888), Melchior Grodziecki (1584), Maria Restituta Kafka (1894), Franziskus von Paula Graf von Schönborn (1844), Friedrich Gustav Piffl (1864), and Vladimír Holan (1905). After him are Jan Graubner (1948), Karel Kašpar (1870), and Zecharias Frankel (1801).

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