page_title: Friedrich Wetter
section_title: Bishop
hierarchical_section_title: Friedrich Wetter / Bishop
caption_attribution_description: Friedrich Kardinal Wetter
context_page_description: Friedrich Wetter is a German cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was Archbishop of Munich and Freising, Germany, from 1982 to 2007. He was Bishop of Speyer from 1968 to 1982. Pope John Paul II made him a cardinal in 1985.
  At age 92, Cardinal Wetter is the oldest living cardinal from Germany.
context_section_description: He was Bishop of Speyer (1968–1982) and became Archbishop of Munich and Freising in 1982.
caption: Portrait of Wetter by Günter Rittner, 1997
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