Who has the highest wife in the world?

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Ziona (born Zionnghaka; 21 July 1945 – 13 June 2021) was the leader of Lalpa Kohhran Thar (meaning "The Lord's New Church"), informally referred to as Chana Pâwl or Chhuanthar Kohhran ("The Church of New Generation"), a polygamy-practising Christian sect in Mizoram, India.
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(76), believed to head the world's largest family, with 38 wives and 89 children. Mizoram and his village at Baktawng Tlangnuam has become a major tourist attraction in the state because of the family.
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Who is the highest married man?

Glynn Wolfe, also known as Scotty Wolfe (July 25, 1908 – June 10, 1997), was a Baptist minister who resided in Blythe, California. He was famous for holding the record for the largest number of monogamous marriages (31). His shortest marriage lasted 19 days, and his longest lasted eleven years.
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Who has the biggest family in the world?

Ziona Chana, formerly the head of the world's largest family, passed away aged 76 in June, leaving behind a clan of 181 members.
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Who is the man with many wives?

Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com. Winston Blackmore, the head of a polygamous Mormon sect in Canada, has around 150 children from 27 wives - 178 people in total.
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Which Indian king has more wives?

Maharaja Bhupinder Singh built a 'Leela-Bhavan' in Patiala, where only naked people were allowed. This palace is built in Patiala city on the road leading to Bhupendra Nagar, close to the Bahudari Bagh. According to historians the Maharaja had a total of 365 queens, including 10 authorized queens.
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Can a Hindu have 2 wives?

Legal developments

Thus polygamy became illegal in India in 1956, uniformly for all of its citizens except for Muslims, who are permitted to have four wives and for Hindus in Goa and along the western coast where bigamy is legal. A polygamous Hindu marriage is null and void.
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Which God has only one wife?

As the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krishna shows both examples - as Krishna He has 16.108 wives and as Rama He has only one wife. Also Vishnu has only one wife.
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Who had 100 wives?

Abumbi II, the 11th fon, or king, of Bafut, Cameroon, has close to 100 wives. They weren't all his to start. According to local tradition, when a fon dies, his successor inherits all his wives and then marries his own queens.
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Who's been married the most?

Most married woman in the world: Linda Wolfe holds record for being the most married woman in the world. She was married 23 times. Her first marriage at 16 was for love.
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Can I have two wives?

Polygamy is illegal and criminalized in every country in North and South America, including all 50 U.S. states. However, in February 2020, the Utah House and Senate reduced the punishment for consensual polygamy, which had previously been classified as a felony, to roughly equivalent to a traffic ticket.
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Who fathered the most babies?

The man who is thought to have fathered the most children of all time is Moroccan Sultan Ismail Ibn Sharif (1645 to 1727) with a total of more than 1,000, according to Guinness World Records. This number has not been officially confirmed, however.
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How many child can a woman give birth?

Women can reproduce for about half of their lifetime and can only give birth about once every year or so. So it makes sense that women can only have a fraction as many children as men. One study estimated a woman can have around 15 pregnancies in a lifetime.
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What is the greatest number of babies born to one woman?

A woman who had eight babies in the US in 2009 currently holds the Guinness World Record for the most children delivered at a single birth to survive. Last month, 25-year-old Halima Cissé from Mali gave birth to nine babies, who are reportedly doing well at a clinic in Morocco.
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Who has the most divorces in the world?

The Most Divorced Countries in The World
  • Russia: 4.7 Divorces per 1,000 People. ...
  • Guam: 4.2 Divorces per 1,000 People. ...
  • Moldova: 3.7 Divorces per 1,000 People. ...
  • Belarus: 3.4 Divorces per 1,000 People. ...
  • Latvia: 3.1 Divorces per 1,000 People. ...
  • Guatemala: 0.4 Divorces per 1,000 People. ...
  • Qatar: 0.4 Divorces per 1,000 People.
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Can a woman have multiple husbands?

polyandry, marriage of a woman to two or more men at the same time; the term derives from the Greek polys, “many,” and anēr, andros, “man.” When the husbands in a polyandrous marriage are brothers or are said to be brothers, the institution is called adelphic, or fraternal, polyandry.
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What is the shortest marriage ever?

A couple in Kuwait reportedly got divorced after just three minutes in Kuwait last month, in what is believed to be the shortest marriage on record. The couple hadn't even left the courthouse where their nuptials had taken place when the woman tripped over and fell.
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Who was married 7 times?

Richard Pryor

The comedian made it to the altar seven times, marrying and re-marrying a few of his exes. He was first married to Patricia Price in 1961, though the union only lasted one year. In 1967, he married Shelley Bonis, but they divorced in 1969.
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What is the longest divorce in history?

17 is anyone's guess. After all, Carol and Warren Rosendale's divorce case – at 12 years and eight months, and counting – has outlasted their marriage.
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  • Warren Rosendale and Carol Walton in 1989, shortly before they married.
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Which celebrity has the most wives?

Hollywood actress Lana Turner was married eight times. Singer Jerry Lee Lewis was married seven times, as was comedy actor Richard Pryor, while actor Tony Curtis tied the knot six times.
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Which King has more wife?

Perhaps the most well-known polygamist of all is the wise figure of King Solomon. He is believed to have had around 700 wives, and another 300 concubines, or mistresses.
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Which Indian king has only one wife?

What are some Indian kings and princes who have only one love or wife till their death? The Peshwa king Madhav Rao Peshwa is one of the few rulers of Maharashtra , who had only one wife till he died . Her name was Ramabai Peshwe .
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Why Krishna have so many wives?

Being trapped in dharma, Shri Krishna accepted all women as his wives so that they live an honorable life and nobody dares to mock them. To restore their honor and give them the status of queen, Shri Krishna married them. That is how he came to have 16,108 wives.
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Is it a sin to marry two wives?

Catholic Church

The Catechism forbids polygamy as a grave offense against marriage and contrary to the original plan of God and equal dignity of human beings.
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