# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rayappu-joseph
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:11:30.207Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rayappu-joseph"
name: "Rayappu Joseph"
slug: "rayappu-joseph"
description: "Bishop Rayappu Joseph was a Sri Lanka Tamil prelate and the Roman Catholic Bishop of Mannar."
tagline: "Sri Lankan Tamil bishop (1940-2021)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Religious Figures"
  slug: "religious-figures"
profileType:
  name: "Religious Figure"
  slug: "religious-figure"
birthDate: "1940-04-16"
deathDate: "2021-04-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.08
  momentum:             3.733333333333334
  historical:           8.803708
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  25
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "رايابو چوزيف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Rayappu Joseph"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayappu_Joseph"
    title: "Rayappu Joseph"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayappu_Joseph"
    title: "Rayappu Joseph"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayappu_Joseph"
    title: "Rayappu Joseph"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayappu_Joseph"
    title: "Rayappu Joseph"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayappu_Joseph"
    title: "Rayappu Joseph"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayappu_Joseph"
    title: "Rayappu Joseph"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%87%E0%AE%B0%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%AF%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%81_%E0%AE%AF%E0%AF%8B%E0%AE%9A%E0%AF%87%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%81"
    title: "இராயப்பு யோசேப்பு"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rayappu_Joseph"
    title: "Wikiquote"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2134010"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump