RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Kuriakose Elias Chavara

1805 - 1871

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Saint Kuriakose Elias Chavara, CMI (10 February 1805 – 3 January 1871) was an Indian Catholic priest, religious, philosopher and social reformer. He is the first canonised Catholic male saint of Indian origin and was a member of the Syro-Malabar Church, an Eastern Catholic church. He was the co-founder and first prior general of the first congregation for men in the Syro-Malabar Church, the Carmelites of Mary Immaculate, and of a similar one for women, the Congregation of the Mother of Carmel. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Kuriakose Elias Chavara is the 2,568th most popular religious figure (down from 2,317th in 2019), the 560th most popular biography from India (down from 489th in 2019) and the 52nd most popular Indian Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Kuriakose Elias Chavara ranks 2,568 out of 3,187. Before him are Carl Tanzler, Gisbertus Voetius, Carlo Agostini, Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg, Arcadio Larraona Saralegui, and Edmund Campion. After him are János Simor, Saint Thorlak, Gamzat-bek, Pietro Palazzini, Alfred Des Cloizeaux, and Jon Sobrino.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1805, Kuriakose Elias Chavara ranks 57. Before him are Alexander Karl, Duke of Anhalt-Bernburg, Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann, Mary Seacole, Eugène Devéria, Johann Eduard Erdmann, and Infanta Maria da Assunção of Braganza. After him are Hugo von Mohl, José Ballivián, Manuel García, Rudolf Wagner, Victor Baltard, and Tomás Villalba. Among people deceased in 1871, Kuriakose Elias Chavara ranks 56. Before him are Anna Sundström, Peter von Hess, François Delsarte, Stand Watie, Mariano Melgarejo, and Henri Regnault. After him are Alexander Serov, Victor Motschulsky, Willibald Alexis, Paul Kane, Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger, and Adolph Strecker.

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In India

Among people born in India, Kuriakose Elias Chavara ranks 560 out of 1,861. Before him are Supriya Pathak (1961), Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis (1893), Surdas (1478), Nilakantha Somayaji (1444), MS Dhoni (1981), and Meena Kumari (1933). After him are Shiva Rajkumar (1961), Shammi Kapoor (1931), M. F. Husain (1915), Bhikaiji Cama (1861), Yellapragada Subbarow (1895), and Hemu (1501).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In India

Among religious figures born in India, Kuriakose Elias Chavara ranks 52. Before him are Nirmala Srivastava (1923), Rukhmabai (1864), Oswald Gracias (1944), Telesphore Toppo (1939), Guru Har Krishan (1656), and Ashraf Ali Thanwi (1863). After him are Baselios Cleemis (1959), Antony Padiyara (1921), Roberto de Nobili (1577), Chandramukhi Basu (1860), Mohan Bhagwat (1950), and Mirza Tahir Ahmad (1928).

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