RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Hermann Volk

1903 - 1988

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Hermann Volk (27 December 1903 – 1 July 1988) was a German cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Mainz from 1962 to 1982, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1973. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hermann Volk is the 2,811th most popular religious figure, the 4,769th most popular biography from Germany (up from 5,004th in 2019) and the 121st most popular German Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Hermann Volk ranks 2,811 out of 3,187Before him are Dolly Pentreath, Hugh O'Flaherty, Luis Aponte Martínez, Ariulf of Spoleto, Matthew Parker, and Marcelo González Martín. After him are Jean Hardouin, Léon-Étienne Duval, Victoriano Guisasola y Menéndez, Melchior von Diepenbrock, Paulos Faraj Rahho, and Stanisław Nagy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Hermann Volk ranks 274Before him are Georg Gehring, Walter Weiler, Jeanette MacDonald, Suat Hayri Ürgüplü, Wilfrid Hyde-White, and Willi Forst. After him are Léon-Étienne Duval, Tomoji Abe, María Teresa León, Billie Dove, Lilly Scholz, and Ali Sastroamidjojo. Among people deceased in 1988, Hermann Volk ranks 194Before him are Paula Mollenhauer, Sten Suvio, Teóphilo Bettencourt Pereira, Ottó Boros, Jaú, and Phạm Hùng. After him are Freddie Wolff, María Teresa León, Alf Kjellin, Carlos Manuel Piedra, Liang Shuming, and Louis Versyp.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hermann Volk ranks 4,772 out of 7,253Before him are Adolf Friedrich von Schack (1815), Thomas Quasthoff (1959), Michael May (1934), Thomas Munkelt (1952), Georg Friedrich von Martens (1756), and Peter Baltes (1958). After him are Friedrich von Scholtz (1851), Moritz Bleibtreu (1971), Tilo Prückner (1940), Christian Lindner (1979), Melchior von Diepenbrock (1798), and Sabine Meyer (1959).

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Germany

Among religious figures born in Germany, Hermann Volk ranks 121Before him are Maria Katharina Kasper (1820), Franziskus von Bettinger (1850), Christian Ferdinand Friedrich Hochstetter (1787), Vladimir Lossky (1903), Uta Ranke-Heinemann (1927), and Oliver of Paderborn (1170). After him are Melchior von Diepenbrock (1798), Gerhard von Rad (1901), Brother Alois (1954), Johannes Weiss (1863), Rudolf Kittel (1853), and Johannes Joachim Degenhardt (1926).