# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-werner-scheele
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:47:43.158Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-werner-scheele"
name: "Paul-Werner Scheele"
slug: "paul-werner-scheele"
description: "Paul-Werner Scheele was a German Catholic prelate and theologian. Born in Olpe, Scheele was ordained to the priesthood in 1952, and appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Paderborn in 1975. In 1979, he became the Bishop of Würzburg, serving until his retirement in 2003."
tagline: "German bishop (1928–2019)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/PW_Scheele_em_06052012.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "DE"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Academic"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1928-04-06"
deathDate: "2019-05-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "بول فيرنر شيل"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump