1. Friedrich Wetter was born on 20 February 1928 and is a German cardinal of the Catholic Church.
11 Facts About Friedrich Wetter
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Friedrich Wetter was Archbishop of Munich and Freising, Germany, from 1982 to 2007.
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Friedrich Wetter was Bishop of Speyer from 1968 to 1982.
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Friedrich Wetter studied first in Landau and then from 1948 to 1956 at the Sankt Georgen Graduate School of Philosophy and Theology and at the Gregorian University in Rome, where he obtained a doctorate in theology.
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Friedrich Wetter was a chaplain in Speyer from 1956 to 1958 and taught at the seminary there from 1958 to 1960.
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Friedrich Wetter was assistant parish priest for a year in Glanmunchweiler, and then taught as Professor of Fundamental Theology in Eichstatt from 1962 to 1967 and as Professor of Dogmatic Theology at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz in 1967 for a year.
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Friedrich Wetter was made a cardinal by Pope John Paul on 25 May 1985, with the title of Cardinal-Priest of Santo Stefano Rotondo.
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Friedrich Wetter was one of the cardinal electors who participated in the 2005 papal conclave that elected Pope Benedict XVI.
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Friedrich Wetter continued there as apostolic administrator until the installation of Reinhard Marx as his successor on 2 February 2008.
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Friedrich Wetter defended his actions in detail and disputed much of the report; he admitted fault in one case in particular that the report addressed at great length.
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Friedrich Wetter apologized for failing to listen to victims of abuse and recognizing how abuse affected them and their families.