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Church
  
Roman Catholic

Successor
  
Created cardinal
  
May 25, 1985

Name
  
Friedrich Wetter

Appointed
  
October 28, 1982

Term ended
  
02 February 2007

Ordination
  
October 10, 1953

Installed
  
12 December 1982

Predecessor
  

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See
  
Munich and Freising (emeritus)

Other posts
  
Cardinal Priest Of S. Stephani in Coelio Monte

Consecration
  
29 June 1968by Isidor Markus Emanuel

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Friedrich Wetter (born 20 February 1928) is a German cardinal of the Catholic Church, the Archbishop Emeritus of Munich and Freising, Germany. His resignation as Metropolitan Archbishop of Munich and Freising was accepted on 2 February 2007 by Pope Benedict XVI, who was Cardinal Wetter's immediate predecessor in that post before going on to become Pope John Paul II's Prefect for the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith and then Pope.

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Friedrich Wetter Kirchenanzeiger

At age 89, Cardinal Wetter is the oldest living cardinal from Germany.

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Early life and ordination

Friedrich Wetter Kirchenanzeiger

Born in Landau (Rhineland-Palatinate), Wetter studied in Landau and then, from 1948 to 1956, at the Sankt Georgen Graduate School of Philosophy and Theology and in the Gregorian University in Rome, where he obtained a doctorate in theology. In 1953, he was ordained a priest in Rome.

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After being chaplain for two years (1956–1958) in Speyer, teaching in the seminary in the same city for another two years (1958–1960), and being assistant parish priest for a year in Glanmünchweiler, he became Professor of Fundamental Theology in Eichstätt for five years (1962–1967) and Professor of Dogmatic Theology at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz in 1967, a post he held for only one year before being appointed bishop.

Bishop

Friedrich Wetter

He was Bishop of Speyer (1968–1982) and became Archbishop of Munich and Freising in 1982.

Cardinal

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He was made a Cardinal by Pope John Paul II in 1985, with the title of Cardinal-Priest of Santo Stefano Rotondo. He was one of the cardinal electors who participated in the 2005 papal conclave that selected Pope Benedict XVI.

On 2 February 2007 Pope Benedict accepted his resignation, offered in accordance as with canon 354 of the Code of Canon Law (on the grounds of age). On 30 November 2007, Reinhard Marx, then Bishop of Trier, was named as Wetter's successor.

Rights of Catholic politicians

Cardinal Wetter criticized in 2004 the Italian government's withdrawal of its nomination of Rocco Buttiglione to the European Commission.

Liturgical abuses

Cardinal Friedrich Wetter also said in an open letter in 2004 that anonymous informers intent on reporting liturgical abuses would labour in vain in the Archdiocese of Munich. "Blackening people's names, especially when the talebearer wishes to stay anonymous, will not get anyone anywhere in our archdiocese," Cardinal Wetter warned. His comments followed the promulgation of the Vatican instruction on abuses in the liturgy, Redemptionis Sacramentum.

References

Friedrich Wetter Wikipedia


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