# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/giovanni-franzoni
# Generated: 2026-08-15T07:35:49.761Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/giovanni-franzoni"
name: "Giovanni Franzoni"
slug: "giovanni-franzoni"
description: "Giovanni Battista Franzoni was an Italian Christian communist and dissident theologian. A former Benedictine, he was Abbot of St. Paul's Outside the Walls from 1964 to 1973. Having become involved in activism and politics, he was laicized by Pope Paul VI in 1976."
tagline: "Italian theologian (1928-2017)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Franzoni_1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "IT"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1928-11-08"
deathDate: "2017-07-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "جيوفانى فرانزونى"
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    title: "Giovanni Franzoni"
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    title: "Giovanni Franzoni (teólogo)"
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    title: "Giovanni Franzoni"
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    title: "جیووانی فرانزونی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Giovanni Franzoni (teologo)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Giovanni Franzoni"
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    title: "Giovanni Franzoni"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump