Joseph Wendel
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Joseph Wendel 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
Joseph Wendel at the final rally of the 77th Deutscher Katholikentag (German Catholic Day) in Cologne, 1956.
Bishop of Speyer
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The Bishop of Speyer is the Ordinary of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Speyer, which is a suffragan see of the Archdiocese of Bamberg. The diocese covers an area of 5,893 km². The most recent bishop wa
Joseph Wendel
…following 29 June from Bishop Ludwig Sebastian, with Bishops Matthias Ehrenfried and Joseph Kolb serving as co-consecrators. Wendel succeeded Sebastian as Bishop of Speyer on 20 May 1943, being installed on 4 June that year. During World War II, he strongly defended the rights of the Church and humanity. Wendel became…
Franz Christoph von Hutten zum Stolzenberg, prince-bishop of Speyer