Popularity ranking · Italy

The 18 most popular 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 2.6M people. Across all 18 entries the average audience size is 148k, 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 42k 42.1 57.9% Priest
3 San Antonio de Padua 23k 30.0 100.0% Priest
4 Huldrych Zwingli 19k Priest
5 John Vianney 3.6k 46.3 75.2% Priest
6 Gregory of Nazianzus 3.5k 44.3 0.0% Priest
7 Frank Pavone 1.8k 49.1 67.4% Priest
8 Thomas S. Monson 1k 41.9 70.8% Priest
9 D. Todd Christofferson 726 34.1 75.6% Priest
10 Kevin DeYoung 621 45.2 100.0% Priest
11 Padre Robson de Oliveira 549 43.2 52.3% Priest
12 David A. Bednar 328 41.9 69.9% Priest
13 Dayananda Saraswati 221 29.1 6.7% Priest
14 Howard W. Hunter 200 46.9 100.0% Priest
15 Robert D. Hales 170 37.7 67.4% Priest
16 James E. Faust 134 Priest
17 Charles E. Blake 112 Priest
18 Padre Fábio de Melo 34 45.4 68.0% Priest

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Frequently asked questions

How is this list of the most popular priests 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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