Manfred Melzer

'"Manfred Melzer'" born * 28 February 1944 in Solingen-Ohligs) is Archbishop of Cologne in the Roman Catholic Church.

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After the Abitur in the state "Quirinus high school" in Neuss he studied in Bonn, Freiburg im Breisgau and Cologne theology and received on the 1st of February, 1972 in the Cologne Cathedral the sacrament him priest's inauguration after the inhabitant of Cologne archbishop Joseph Kardinal Höffner appoints him his archiepiscopal chaplain and confidential secretary. In 1978 he was appointed in addition to the cathedral curate in the high cathedral church in Cologne, however, secretary of the archbishop remained up to his death in 1987. 3 years before Pope John Paul II appointed him to the Monsignore.

Since 1988 as a priest in the town Waldbröl and the municipality Nümbrecht active, he was appointed on the 9th of June, 1995 by pope Johannes Paul II to the Titular bishop of Carinola (Italy) and auxiliary bishop in Cologne. He received the bishop's inauguration by the Cologne archbishop Joachim Kardinal Meisner on the 10th of September, 1995 in the Cologne Cathedral and is responsible since then for the pastoral district middle of the archbishopric Cologne, so of the town and surroundings (20 deanships). At the same time the archbishop appointed him the bishop's curate for the women's orders in the archbishopric Cologne. In 1998 Melzer was chosen in the metropolitan chapter.

As a member of the German bishops' conference he belongs to the pastoral commission and the commission for questions of the world church. Melzer is also since 2004 chairpersons of German Lourdes an association Cologne inc. in 2006 the bishops chose him the representative for the Catholic police spiritual welfare in Germany.

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  am 11th of June, 2008 in Rome, pilgrimage of the Catholic police spiritual welfare Cologne

External links

• web page about Manfred Melzer (archbishopric Cologne)

Preceded by Walter Jansen

Archbishop of Cologne 1995–present

Succeeded by incumbent

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