# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-of-montecorvino
# Generated: 2026-08-16T03:40:31.280Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-of-montecorvino"
name: "John of Montecorvino"
slug: "john-of-montecorvino"
description: "John of Montecorvino, OFM was an Italian Franciscan missionary, traveller and statesman, founder of the earliest Latin Catholic missions in India and China, and Archbishop of Peking. He converted many people during his missionary work and established several churches in Yuan dynasty-held Beijing. John wrote a letter intending to convert the Great Khan to Catholicism. He was a contemporary of Marco Polo."
tagline: "Diplomat of the Holy See"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Epistalae%2C_Giovanni_da_Montecorvino.png/330px-Epistalae%2C_Giovanni_da_Montecorvino.png"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Public Official"
  slug: "public-official"
birthDate: "1246"
deathDate: "1328"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.78
  momentum:             0
  historical:           19.73812666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump