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College of Cardinals Biographical notes [Updated: 26.07.2002]
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Johannes Joachim Degenhardt,
Archbishop of Paderborn
, Germany, was born on 31 January 1926 in
Schwelm, Germany. At the age of 15 he was
arrested and imprisoned by the Gestapo for
belonging to a Catholic group, Bund
Neudeutschland, banned by the Nazis. After
the war he studied philosophy and theology in
Paderborn and Munich, and was ordained for the
Archdiocese of Paderborn on 6 August 1952.
He did parish work for seven years in Brackwede and was appointed prefect of the Collegium Leonianum, Paderborn, in 1959. At the same time he completed his doctoral thesis and was an assistant professor of theology in Bochum and later dean of the Hochstift Paderborn pastoral region. On 12 March 1968 was appointed titular Bishop of Vicus Pacati and Auxiliary of Paderborn, receiving episcopal ordination on 1 May. On 4 April 1974 he was promoted to Archbishop of Paderborn. In 1990 he became Chairman of the Administrative Committee of the Association of German Dioceses. Created and proclaimed Cardinal by John Paul II in the consistory of 21 February 2001. Titular church St. Liborius. Cardinal Johannes Joachim Degenhardt died on 25 July 2002.
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