# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-douglas-main
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:28:09.533Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-douglas-main"
name: "John Douglas Main"
slug: "john-douglas-main"
description: "John Douglas Main, OSB, was an English Roman Catholic priest and Benedictine monk who presented a way of Christian meditation which used a prayer-phrase or mantra. In 1975, Main began Christian meditation groups which met at Ealing Abbey, his monastery in West London, England, and, later, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. These were the origins of the ecumenical network of Christian meditation groups which have become the World Community for Christian Meditation (WCCM)."
tagline: "Roman Catholic priest and Benedictine monk (1926–1982)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/66/Fr_John_Main.gif"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1926-01-21"
deathDate: "1982-12-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.82
  momentum:             0.3586065573770493
  historical:           7.436396
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Джон Мейн"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جون دوجلاس ماين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Main_(Geistlicher)"
    title: "John Main (Geistlicher)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Main"
    title: "John Main"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Main"
    title: "John Main"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Main"
    title: "John Main"
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  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Main"
    title: "John Main"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BD%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Мейн, Джон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump