# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leo-scheffczyk
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:37:09.838Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/leo-scheffczyk"
name: "Leo Scheffczyk"
slug: "leo-scheffczyk"
description: "Leo Scheffczyk was a German cardinal and theologian. He was a long-time theologian at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and one of the strongest advocates for orthodoxy during the long pontificate of John Paul II. During the 1980s and 1990s, he severely criticized some of his former students, including Leonardo Boff, one of the founders of liberation theology. Scheffczyk likely played a major role in drafting the most notable documents of John Paul's pontificate, such as Ordinatio sacerdotalis and Ad tuendam fidem. He was made a cardinal in 2001. He was regarded as an important thinker in late twentieth-century Catholicism."
tagline: "Catholic cardinal (1920–2005)"
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birthDate: "1920-02-21"
deathDate: "2005-12-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump