# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-vaz
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:00:49.731Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joseph-vaz"
name: "Joseph Vaz"
slug: "joseph-vaz"
description: "Joseph Vaz CO was a Oratorian priest and missionary in Dutch Ceylon. Originally from Sancoale in Portuguese Goa, Vaz arrived in Ceylon during the Dutch occupation, a time when the Dutch had banned Catholicism in Ceylon and imposed Calvinism as the official religion after taking control from the Portuguese Empire."
tagline: "Oratorian priest and missionary in Sri Lanka"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joze-Vaz.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Religious Figures"
  slug: "religious-figures"
profileType:
  name: "Religious Figure"
  slug: "religious-figure"
birthDate: "1651-04-21"
deathDate: "1711-01-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           53.92
  momentum:             3.534743202416919
  historical:           18.455656
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  136
  category: null
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    title: "چوزيف فاز"
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    title: "Joseph Vaz"
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    title: "Joseph Vaz"
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    title: "Joseph Vaz"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ශාන්ත ජුසේ වාස් තුමා"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Joseph Vaz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump