RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Miguel Obando y Bravo

1926 - 2018

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Miguel Obando y Bravo, SDB (2 February 1926 – 3 June 2018) was a Nicaraguan Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Managua from 1970 to 2005. Pope John Paul II created him a cardinal in 1985. He was a member of the Salesians of Don Bosco. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Miguel Obando y Bravo is the 2,276th most popular religious figure (up from 2,375th in 2019), the 15th most popular biography from Nicaragua (up from 18th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Nicaraguan Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Miguel Obando y Bravo ranks 2,276 out of 3,187. Before him are Stephen Chow, Hypatius of Gangra, Raymundo Damasceno Assis, Clemente Micara, Mkrtich Khrimian, and Maternus of Cologne. After him are Muhammad al-Sadr, Hur, Raúl Eduardo Vela Chiriboga, Asser, Quodvultdeus, and Rino Fisichella.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Miguel Obando y Bravo ranks 239. Before him are Bhupen Hazarika, Ri Kun-mo, Salvador Jorge Blanco, Nikita Simonyan, Betsy Palmer, and Claudio Villa. After him are Ibrahim Nasir, Sadegh Khalkhali, Alina Szapocznikow, Salahuddin of Selangor, Prince Dimitri Romanov, and Julio Pérez. Among people deceased in 2018, Miguel Obando y Bravo ranks 214. Before him are Kirin Kiki, Álvaro Arzú, Naomi Parker Fraley, Jesús López Cobos, Vladimír Weiss, and Yoshinori Shigematsu. After him are Sergey Litvinov, Billy Herrington, Siegfried Rauch, James Karen, Philip Bosco, and Peter Thompson.

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In Nicaragua

Among people born in Nicaragua, Miguel Obando y Bravo ranks 15 out of 34. Before him are Barbara Carrera (1945), Leopoldo Brenes (1949), Luis Somoza Debayle (1922), Arnoldo Alemán (1946), Bianca Jagger (1945), and Claribel Alegría (1924). After him are Sergio Ramírez (1942), Gioconda Belli (1948), José Santos Zelaya (1853), Emiliano Chamorro Vargas (1871), Juan Bautista Sacasa (1874), and Edén Pastora (1936).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Nicaragua

Among religious figures born in Nicaragua, Miguel Obando y Bravo ranks 2. Before him are Leopoldo Brenes (1949). After him are Fernando Cardenal (1934).

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