RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Joseph Wendel

1901 - 1960

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Joseph Wendel (May 27, 1901 – December 31, 1960) was a German Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Munich and Freising from 1952 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1953 by Pope Pius XII. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Wendel has received more than 26,611 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Joseph Wendel is the 2,553rd most popular religious figure (down from 2,466th in 2019), the 4,426th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,364th in 2019) and the 112th most popular German Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Joseph Wendel ranks 2,553 out of 3,187Before him are Germanus V of Constantinople, Ankhnesneferibre, Domenico Calcagno, Christian Horner, Juan de Homedes, and Tryphon of Constantinople. After him are Franziskus von Paula Graf von Schönborn, Justin Welby, Nicholas Ridley, Rosalio José Castillo Lara, Vladimir Lossky, and Joseph Othmar Rauscher.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Joseph Wendel ranks 228Before him are Paul Verhoeven, Mark Donskoy, Harry Partch, Rudolf Wetzer, Oleksiy Fedorov, and Bebe Daniels. After him are Sid Atkinson, Ondino Viera, Gérard Blitz, Norah Borges, Otto Heckmann, and Aleksandrs Čaks. Among people deceased in 1960, Joseph Wendel ranks 152Before him are Lottie Dod, Eduard Čech, The Great Gama, Willem Elsschot, Frank Elmore Ross, and Hasan Saka. After him are Pedro Arispe, Harold Spencer Jones, Agnes Arber, Leonard Warren, Bogoljub Jevtić, and Roscoe Lockwood.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Joseph Wendel ranks 4,426 out of 7,253Before him are Klaus Bonsack (1941), Ludwig Biermann (1907), Karl Freiherr von Müffling (1775), John Ericson (1926), Angela Sommer-Bodenburg (1948), and Marie Friederike of Hesse-Kassel (1768). After him are Fritz Schäffer (1888), Friedrich von Hagedorn (1708), Elly Ney (1882), Ludwig Bechstein (1801), Vladimir Lossky (1903), and Landgravine Caroline of Hesse-Rotenburg (1714).

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Germany

Among religious figures born in Germany, Joseph Wendel ranks 112Before him are Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg (1682), Johannes Brenz (1499), Franz Delitzsch (1813), Gerhard von Rad (1901), Nicolaus von Amsdorf (1483), and Joseph Höffner (1906). After him are Vladimir Lossky (1903), Georg von Kopp (1837), Rainer Woelki (1956), Rudolf Kittel (1853), Maria Katharina Kasper (1820), and Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer (1801).