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Top 18 Priests in Italy

This curated ranking covers the 18 largest priests in Italy, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Padre Pío, Melchizedek and San Antonio de Padua lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 2.7M people. Across all 18 entries the average audience size is 152k, and the largest, Padre Pío, reaches around 2.6M people in Italy. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in Italy who actively engage with each priest, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across Italy and are refreshed weekly.

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Rank

Position in the Top 18, sorted by audience size from largest to smallest. Updated weekly.

Audience size

Estimated number of unique people in Italy who actively engage with this audience, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals.

Country share

Share of the global audience that is active in Italy. A higher value means the audience is more locally concentrated here.

Avg age

Average age in years across the people who engage with this audience in Italy, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals. A dash means demographic data is not yet available.

Female share

Share of women among the people who engage with this audience in Italy. 50% is gender-balanced; values above mean female-skewed, below mean male-skewed.

Ranking

Rank Audience Audience size Avg age Female share Subtype
1 Padre Pío 2.6M 47.9 76.3% Priest
2 Melchizedek 41k 42.1 57.9% Priest
3 San Antonio de Padua 23k 30.0 100.0% Priest
4 Huldrych Zwingli 19k Priest
5 Padre Fábio de Melo 6.6k 45.4 68.0% Priest
6 John Vianney 3.5k 46.3 75.2% Priest
7 Gregory of Nazianzus 3.4k 44.3 0.0% Priest
8 Frank Pavone 1.8k 49.1 67.4% Priest
9 Thomas S. Monson 1k 41.9 70.8% Priest
10 D. Todd Christofferson 723 34.1 75.6% Priest
11 Kevin DeYoung 616 45.2 100.0% Priest
12 Padre Robson de Oliveira 547 43.2 52.3% Priest
13 David A. Bednar 323 41.9 69.9% Priest
14 Dayananda Saraswati 217 29.1 6.7% Priest
15 Howard W. Hunter 196 46.9 100.0% Priest
16 Robert D. Hales 166 37.7 67.4% Priest
17 James E. Faust 132 Priest
18 Charles E. Blake 110 Priest

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Frequently asked questions

How is this Top 18 list compiled?

Rascasse aggregates anonymized search-behavior signals across Italy and ranks each priest by its estimated audience size. Only entries with at least 5 measured entities are listed.

How often is the list updated?

The ranking is refreshed weekly from the latest search-behavior data and re-published as a static page.

What is the largest priest in Italy?

Padre Pío currently leads with an estimated audience of 2.6M people in Italy.

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