# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/manfred-melzer
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:22:00.714Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/manfred-melzer"
name: "Manfred Melzer"
slug: "manfred-melzer"
description: "Manfred Melzer was a German bishop of the Roman Catholic Church. Appointed by Pope Benedict XVI, Melzer was serving as an Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Cologne from 1995 to 2015."
tagline: "German bishop (1944–2018)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Verleihung_des_Europ%C3%A4ischen_Handwerkspreises_an_Karl_Kardinal_Lehmann-2051.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
birthDate: "1944-02-28"
deathDate: "2018-08-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.96
  momentum:             0.1104972375690608
  historical:           8.539921333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Manfred_Melzer"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%81%D8%A7"
    title: "مانفريد بينيسوفا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%81%D8%A7"
    title: "مانفريد بينيسوفا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manfred_Melzer"
    title: "Manfred Melzer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manfred_Melzer"
    title: "Manfred Melzer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manfred_Melzer"
    title: "Manfred Melzer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manfred_Melzer"
    title: "Manfred Melzer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manfred_Melzer"
    title: "Manfred Melzer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manfred_Melzer"
    title: "Manfred Melzer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manfred_Melzer"
    title: "Manfred Melzer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q97208"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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