RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Oliver Plunkett

1625 - 1681

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Oliver Plunkett (or Oliver Plunket; Irish: Oilibhéar Pluincéid; 1 November 1625 – 1 July 1681) was the Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland and the last victim of the Popish Plot. He was beatified in 1920 and canonised in 1975, thus becoming the first new Irish saint in almost seven hundred years. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Oliver Plunkett is the 2,854th most popular religious figure (down from 2,678th in 2019), the 245th most popular biography from Ireland (down from 219th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Irish Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Oliver Plunkett ranks 2,854 out of 3,187. Before him are Ernesto Corripio y Ahumada, Mario Francesco Pompedda, Adam Maida, Jean Margéot, Ján Babjak, and William Ellery Channing. After him are Ajahn Brahm, Hirotugu Akaike, Birinus, Cædmon, Roger Mahony, and Ignaty Krachkovsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1625, Oliver Plunkett ranks 19. Before him are Filippo Baldinucci, Thomas Corneille, Ferdinand Maximilian, Hereditary Prince of Baden-Baden, Marie de Nemours, Samuel Morland, and François de Créquy.  Among people deceased in 1681, Oliver Plunkett ranks 17. Before him are Hermann Conring, Maurice, Duke of Saxe-Zeitz, Frederick Louis, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, Agafya Grushetskaya, William Christoph, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg, and Nikolay Diletsky. After him is Fatima Soltan.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Oliver Plunkett ranks 245 out of 549. Before him are Henry Kellett (1806), George Salmon (1819), Michael McElhatton (1963), Lena Rice (1866), Ronnie Drew (1934), and Joe Kelly (1913). After him are Alicia Boole Stott (1860), Charles Haughey (1925), Joshua Pim (1869), John Joly (1857), Agnes Mary Clerke (1842), and W. T. Cosgrave (1880).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Ireland

Among religious figures born in Ireland, Oliver Plunkett ranks 17. Before him are Coloman of Stockerau (1000), Adomnán (624), Catald (700), Aidan of Lindisfarne (600), Violet Gibson (1876), and Hugh O'Flaherty (1898). After him are Finnian of Clonard (470), Desmond Connell (1926), Geoffrey Keating (1569), and Ciarán of Clonmacnoise (516).

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