# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bernard-griffin
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:36:42.011Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bernard-griffin"
name: "Bernard Griffin"
slug: "bernard-griffin"
description: "Bernard William Griffin was an English cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Westminster from 1943 until his death, and was created a cardinal in 1946 by Pope Pius XII. As cardinal, Griffin argued for the provision of Catholic schools in the rebuilding of post-war Britain and acted as papal legate to the 1950 centenary of the restoration of the Catholic hierarchy in England."
tagline: "Catholic cardinal (1899–1956)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bundesarchiv_B_145_Bild-F002138-0004%2C_Fulda%2C_7._Deutscher_Katholikentag.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Religious Figures"
  slug: "religious-figures"
profileType:
  name: "Religious Figure"
  slug: "religious-figure"
birthDate: "1899-02-21"
deathDate: "1956-08-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             16.70900692840647
  historical:           11.818252
  currentAttention:     100
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Bernard William Griffin"
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    title: "برنارد جريفين"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Griffin"
    title: "Bernard Griffin"
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  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Griffin"
    title: "Bernard Griffin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_William_Griffin"
    title: "Bernard William Griffin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernardus_Gulielmus_Griffin"
    title: "Bernardus Gulielmus Griffin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Griffin"
    title: "Bernard Griffin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Bernard Griffin"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_William_Griffin"
    title: "Bernard William Griffin"
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    title: "Гриффин, Бернард Уильям"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump