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Pope Leo XIII
WikiPop's Pick · May 9, 2025

Pope Leo XIII

Head of the Catholic Church from 1878 to 1903

On May 9, 2025, the most-viewed article on Wikipedia was Pope Leo XIV, with 2,965,427 views. It and the next two articles were all WikiPop's picks in the past 30 days, and we don't repeat an article that soon. So WikiPop's pick is #4, Pope Leo XIII, with 361,232 views.

Pope Leo XIII was head of the Catholic Church from 1878 until his death in 1903. He had the fourth-longest reign of any pope, behind those of St. Peter, Pius IX, and John Paul II.

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