# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/marcial-maciel
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:00:08.291Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/marcial-maciel"
name: "Marcial Maciel"
slug: "marcial-maciel"
description: "Marcial Maciel Degollado was a Mexican Catholic priest and sex offender. Maciel founded the Legion of Christ and the Regnum Christi movement. He was general director of the Legion from 1941 to 2005. Throughout most of his career, he was respected within the church as \"the greatest fundraiser of the modern Roman Catholic church\" and as a prolific recruiter of new seminarians."
tagline: "Mexican priest and founder of the Legion of Christ (1920-2008)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Fr._Marcial_Maciel_LC_Late_2004.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Mexico"
  isoCode: "MX"
category:
  name: "Religious Figures"
  slug: "religious-figures"
profileType:
  name: "Religious Figure"
  slug: "religious-figure"
birthDate: "1920-03-10"
deathDate: "2008-01-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.455576
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Marcial Maciel"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcial_Maciel_Degollado"
    title: "Marcial Maciel Degollado"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Marcial Maciel"
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    title: "Marcial Maciel Degollado"
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    title: "Marcial Maciel"
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    title: "Marcial Maciel"
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  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcial_Maciel"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump