1. Josef Frings served as Archbishop of Cologne from 1942 to 1969.
20 Facts About Josef Frings
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Josef Frings received his episcopal consecration from Archbishop Cesare Orsenigo, the Apostolic Nuncio to Germany, in Cologne Cathedral.
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Josef Frings's popularity saved him from reprisals more than once.
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Josef Frings's consecration was used as a demonstration of Catholic self-assertion.
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In March 1944, Josef Frings attacked arbitrary arrests, racial persecution and forced divorces.
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Josef Frings, who had been a fierce and outspoken opponent of Hitler and Nazism during World War II, was, after the war, appointed head of the German Bishops' conference, and appointed a Cardinal.
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Josef Frings repeatedly protested war crimes trials, mainly the Dachau trials, as victors' justice.
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Josef Frings sent a letter to military governor Lucius D Clay, claiming that some of the convicted war criminals executed at Landsberg Prison by US military occupation authorities were innocent.
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Josef Frings spoke in favor for several war criminals, including field marshal Wilhelm List and the Krupps.
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Josef Frings was appointed Cardinal-Priest of San Giovanni a Porta Latina by Pope Pius XII in the consistory of 18 February 1946.
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Josef Frings was an ardent supporter of the dogma of the Assumption of Mary, whose proclamation he personally attended 1 November 1950.
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In 1954, Cardinal Josef Frings initiated the diocesan godparenthood between the Archbishopric of Cologne and the Archdiocese of Tokyo, one of the first archdiocesan partnerships within the Catholic Church.
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Cardinal Josef Frings is the only archbishop of Cologne who earned the honorary citizenship of Cologne, which happened in 1967.
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Josef Frings participated in the Second Vatican Council and was a member of the ten-prelate council chair board.
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Josef Frings lost more and more of his eyesight and eventually was completely blind.
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Josef Frings died in 1978 from a heart attack in Cologne at 91.
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Josef Frings was entombed in the archiepiscopal crypt in the Cologne Cathedral.
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On 8 December 1979, the archiepiscopal Gymnasium Beuel in Bonn, which was founded in 1964 by Josef Frings, was named in Kardinal-Josef Frings-Gymnasium.
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In 1996, the Kardinal-Josef Frings-Association was founded in Josef Frings' hometown of Neuss.
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On 12 August 2000 a memorial of Josef Frings was erected on behalf of the Cardinal Josef Frings Association.