This template can be used to provide comparative at-a-glance information on biographies of religious figures.

Full syntax

All fields are optional, and any unused fields should be removed; if omitted, the name will be inferred from the page title.

{{Infobox religious biography
| name             = 
| native_name      = 
| native_name_lang = 
| image            = 
| caption          = 
| sanskrit         = 
| religion         = 
| school           = 
| lineage          = 
| sect             = 
| subsect          = 
| temple           = 
| order            = 
| other_name       = 
| dharma_name      = 
| monastic_name    = 
| pen_name         = 
| posthumous_name  = 
| nationality      = 
| ethnicity        = 
| birth_name       = 
| birth_date       = {{birth date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|df=y}} or {{birth date|YYYY|MM|DD|df=y}} if dead
| birth_place      = 
| death_date       = {{death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD|df=y}}
| death_place      = 
| resting_place    = 
| resting_place_coordinates = {{Coord|latitude|longitude|type:landmark|display=inline,title}}
| location         = 
| title            = 
| period           = 
| consecration     = 
| predecessor      = 
| successor        = 
| reason           = 
| rank             = 
| teacher          = 
| reincarnation_of = 
| students         = 
| works            = 
| ordination       = 
| profession       = 
| education        = 
| initiation       = 
| previous_post    = 
| present_post     = 
| post             = 
| website          = <!-- {{URL|example.com}} -->
}}

Example

Mother Teresa of Calcutta
An image of Mother Teresa wearing a white head covering with blue stripes
Religion	Catholic
Order	Missionaries of Charity
Personal
Nationality	Indian, Albanian
Born	Agnes Gonxhe Bojaxhiu (1910-08-26)ഓഗസ്റ്റ് 26, 1910 Üsküb, Ottoman Empire (today's Skopje, Republic of Macedonia)
Died	സെപ്തംബർ 5, 1997(1997-09-05) (വയസ്സ് 87) Calcutta, India
Senior posting
Title	Superior General
Period in office	1950–1997
Successor	Nirmala Joshi

{{Infobox religious biography
| background   = #ddd
| name         = Mother Teresa of Calcutta
| image        = MotherTeresa 090.jpg
| alt          = An image of Mother Teresa wearing a white head covering with blue stripes
| religion     = [[Catholic Church|Catholic]]
| order        = [[Missionaries of Charity]]
| nationality  = Indian
| birth_name   = Agnes Gonxhe Bojaxhiu
| birth_date   = {{birth date|1910|8|26}}
| birth_place  = [[Üsküb]], [[Ottoman Empire]] (today's [[Skopje]], [[Republic of Macedonia]])
| death_date   = {{death date and age|1997|9|5|1910|8|26}}
| death_place  = [[Kolkata|Calcutta]], [[India]]
| title        = Superior General
| period       = 1950–1997
| successor    = [[Sister Nirmala|Nirmala Joshi]]
}}

Notes

Separate multiple values using {{Plainlist}} or {{Flatlist}}.

Omit |df=y from date tempaltes, for US-style "MM DD, YYYY" format dates.

Microformat

The HTML markup produced by this template includes an hCard microformat, which makes the person's details parsable by computers, either acting automatically to catalogue articles across Wikipedia or via a browser tool operated by a reader, to (for example) add the subject to an address book or database. For more information about the use of microformats on Wikipedia, please see the microformat project.

Sub-templates

Date-of-birth ("bday") information will only be included in the microformat if {{birth date}}, or {{birth date and age}} are used in the infobox. (Do not use these if the date is before 1583).

To include a URL, use {{URL}}.

Please do not remove instances of these sub-templates.

Classes

hCard uses HTML classes including:

• adr
• agent
• bday
• birthplace
• category
• country-name
• deathdate
• deathplace
• extended-address
• family-name
• fn (required)
• given-name
• honorific-prefix
• honorific-suffix
• label
• locality
• n
• nickname
• note
• org
• role
• url
• vcard

Please do not rename or remove these classes; nor collapse nested elements which use them.