RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Jorge Medina

1926 - 2021

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Jorge Arturo Agustín Medina Estévez (Spanish: [ˈxoɾxe meˈðina]; 23 December 1926 – 3 October 2021) was a Chilean prelate of the Catholic Church who held senior positions both in his native country and in the Roman Curia. He was prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments from 1996 to 2002 and was made a cardinal in 1998. Beginning in 1985 he served as auxiliary bishop and then from 1987 bishop of Rancagua and then bishop of Valparaíso from 1993 to 1996. As Cardinal Protodeacon, the longest serving cardinal of the order of cardinal deacons, he announced the election of Pope Benedict XVI to the world on 19 April 2005. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jorge Medina is the 901st most popular religious figure (up from 1,667th in 2019), the 16th most popular biography from Chile (up from 47th in 2019) and the most popular Chilean Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Jorge Medina ranks 901 out of 3,187. Before him are Robert de Sorbon, Apollinaris of Laodicea, Zeno of Verona, Agostino Casaroli, Michael Michai Kitbunchu, and Bruno of Querfurt. After him are Antipope Nicholas V, Hemma of Gurk, Bavo of Ghent, Alessandro Valignano, Columba, and Fatimah bint Asad.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Jorge Medina ranks 75. Before him are Sergio Corbucci, Joan Sutherland, John Fowles, Yoshio Okada, George Martin, and Hilary Putnam. After him are György Kurtág, Andrew Schally, Henry Way Kendall, Gyula Grosics, Steve Reeves, and Konstantinos Stephanopoulos. Among people deceased in 2021, Jorge Medina ranks 62. Before him are Donald Rumsfeld, Wilbur Smith, Eduardo Martínez Somalo, Sam Jones, Betty White, and Jean-Claude Carrière. After him are Abdul Qadeer Khan, John Magufuli, Pat Hitchcock, Viktor Bryukhanov, Osamu Yamaji, and Phil Spector.

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In Chile

Among people born in Chile, Jorge Medina ranks 16 out of 321. Before him are Bernardo O'Higgins (1778), Sebastián Piñera (1949), Luis Sepúlveda (1949), Claudio Arrau (1903), Sergio Badilla Castillo (1947), and Violeta Parra (1917). After him are Roberto Bolaño (1953), Patricio Aylwin (1918), Iván Zamorano (1967), Pedro Pascal (1975), Ricardo Lagos (1938), and Elías Figueroa (1946).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Chile

Among religious figures born in Chile, Jorge Medina ranks 1. After him are Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa (1933), Laura Vicuña (1891), Teresa of the Andes (1900), Raúl Silva Henríquez (1907), and José María Caro Rodríguez (1866).

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