# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/eduardo-martinez-somalo
# Generated: 2026-08-15T04:48:37.130Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/eduardo-martinez-somalo"
name: "Eduardo Martínez Somalo"
slug: "eduardo-martinez-somalo"
description: "Eduardo Martínez Somalo was a Spanish prelate of the Catholic Church who spent most of his career in the Roman Curia, first in the Secretariat of State from 1956 to 1975 and from 1979 to 1988, and then leading two of its principal dicasteries: the Congregation for Divine Worship from 1988 to 1992 and the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life from 1992 to 2004."
tagline: "Cardinal of the Catholic Church (1927-2021)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "ES"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1927-03-31"
deathDate: "2021-08-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump