# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bernard-william-schmitt
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:36:25.788Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bernard-william-schmitt"
name: "Bernard William Schmitt"
slug: "bernard-william-schmitt"
description: "Bernard William Schmitt was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as bishop of the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston in West Virginia from March 29, 1989, to December 9, 2004."
tagline: "Catholic bishop (1928–2011)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f8/Bernard_William_Schmitt.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1928-08-17"
deathDate: "2011-08-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.07
  momentum:             15
  historical:           6.337725333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "伯納德·威廉·施密特"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "برنارد ويليام شميت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "برنارد ويليام شميت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_W._Schmitt"
    title: "Bernard W. Schmitt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_William_Schmitt"
    title: "Bernard William Schmitt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_William_Schmitt"
    title: "Bernard William Schmitt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A8%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%82%2C_%D0%91%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4_%D0%A3%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%8F%D0%BC"
    title: "Шмитт, Бернард Уильям"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q822759"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump