Category:Joachim Meisner

Joachim Meisner
	German priest and archbishop of Cologne, Catholic cardinal
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Date of birth	25 December 1933; Q2594514 (Wrocław, German Empire)
Date of death	5 July 2017; Bad Füssing
Place of burial	Cologne Cathedral (15 July 2017);
Country of citizenship	Germany;
Educated at	Pontifical Gregorian University;
Occupation	Catholic priest; writer;
Member of	European Academy of Sciences and Arts;
Position held	archbishop (Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cologne); cardinal; bishop;
Award received	Great Golden Medal of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria; Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany; Knight Grand Cross in the Order of the Holy Sepulchre; Q767512 (2016); USTR Prize for Freedom, Democracy and Human Rights (2015);
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Deutsch: Joachim Kardinal Meisner (* 25. Dezember 1933 in Breslau, Niederschlesien; † 5. Juli 2017 in Bad Füssing, Niederbayern) war von 1989 bis 2014 Erzbischof von Köln und Metropolit der Kölner Kirchenprovinz. Zuvor war er von 1980 bis 1989 Bischof von Berlin.

English: Joachim Meisner (25 December 1933 - 5. July 2017) was a Cardinal priest and Archbishop of Cologne in the Roman Catholic Church.

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