# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/josef-frings
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:58:54.634Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/josef-frings"
name: "Josef Frings"
slug: "josef-frings"
description: "Josef Richard Frings, was a German clergyman and Cardinal of the Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Cologne from 1942 to 1969. Considered a significant figure in Catholic resistance to Nazism, he was elevated to the cardinalate in 1946 by Pope Pius XII."
tagline: "Archbishop and cardinal from Germany"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kardinal_Josef_Frings%2C_1944._Foto_von_Hugo_Erfurth.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Religious Figures"
  slug: "religious-figures"
profileType:
  name: "Religious Figure"
  slug: "religious-figure"
birthDate: "1887-02-06"
deathDate: "1978-12-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.444620881302104
  historical:           15.894716
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.frings-gesellschaft.de/"
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    title: "Josef Frings"
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    title: "Josef Frings"
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    title: "Josef Frings"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Josef Frings"
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    title: "Josef Frings"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump