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Joachim Meisner

1933 - 2017

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Joachim Meisner (25 December 1933 – 5 July 2017) was a German Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Cologne from 1989 to 2014. He previously served as Bishop of Berlin from 1980 to 1989, and was created a cardinal in 1983. He was widely considered to be Germany's leading conservative Catholic figure. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joachim Meisner is the 1,396th most popular religious figure (up from 1,715th in 2019), the 390th most popular biography from Poland (up from 586th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Polish Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Joachim Meisner ranks 1,396 out of 3,187. Before him are Tode Mongke, Ludger, Maruthas of Martyropolis, George Sphrantzes, Philotheus I of Constantinople, and Umayya ibn Khalaf. After him are Jozef Tomko, Dom Justo Takayama, Reinhard Marx, Ad-Darazi, Ibn Shihab az-Zuhri, and Darío Castrillón Hoyos.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Joachim Meisner ranks 135. Before him are Renato Salvatori, Bata Živojinović, Michel Hidalgo, Joachim Kroll, Sacha Distel, and Joan Rivers. After him are Suchinda Kraprayoon, Sandra Milo, Shigeo Yaegashi, Maurice André, Katharine, Duchess of Kent, and Luis Bacalov. Among people deceased in 2017, Joachim Meisner ranks 117. Before him are Manuel Marín, Christine Kaufmann, Jannis Kounellis, Charles Bachman, Tsutomu Hata, and Colin Dexter. After him are Karin Dor, Don Rickles, Konstantinos Mitsotakis, Luis Bacalov, George Young, and Robert Hardy.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Joachim Meisner ranks 390 out of 1,694. Before him are Samuel Goldwyn (1879), Czesława Kwoka (1943), Johann Daniel Titius (1729), Karol Świerczewski (1897), Izabela Czartoryska (1746), and Casimir Pulaski (1745). After him are Krystian Zimerman (1956), Maria Cunitz (1610), Arthur Greiser (1897), Mieszko III the Old (1126), Gustav Flatow (1875), and Carl Tausig (1841).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Poland

Among religious figures born in Poland, Joachim Meisner ranks 17. Before him are Itzhak Stern (1901), Stanisław Ryłko (1945), Adam Stefan Sapieha (1867), Jerzy Popiełuszko (1947), Lubomyr Husar (1933), and Franciszek Macharski (1927). After him are Hyacinth of Poland (1185), Wolf Messing (1899), Stanisława Leszczyńska (1896), Emil Krebs (1867), John Albert Vasa (1612), and Andrew Bobola (1591).

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