Adolf Bertram
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His Eminence Adolf Bertram |
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| Archbishop of Breslau | |
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| See | Breslau |
| Elected | 27 May 1914 |
| Installed | 8 September 1914 |
| Term ended | 6 July 1945 |
| Predecessor | Georg von Kopp |
| Successor |
Capitular Vicar Ferdinand Piontek (as of 16 July 1945, since 1 September restricted to the East German archdiocesan area) Administrator Karol Milik (as of 1 September 1945, competent in the Wrocław district of the Polish archdiocesan area) |
| Other posts | Cardinal-Priest of Sant'Agnese fuori le mura |
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| Ordination | 31 July 1881 |
| Consecration | 15 August 1906 by Georg von Kopp |
| Created Cardinal | 4 December 1916 (in pectore) 5 December 1919 by Pope Benedict XV |
| Rank | Cardinal-Priest |
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| Born |
14 March 1859 Hildesheim, Kingdom of Hanover |
| Died | 6 July 1945 (aged 86) Schloß Johannesberg, Jauernig, Czechoslovakia |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
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| Motto | veritati et caritati |
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Adolf Cardinal Bertram (14 March 1859 – 6 July 1945) was archbishop of Breslau and a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
Adolf Bertram was born in Hildesheim, Royal Prussian Province of Hanover (now Lower Saxony), Germany. He studied theology at the University of Munich, the University of Innsbruck, and the University of Würzburg, where he obtained a doctorate in theology, and at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, where he earned a doctorate in canon law in 1884. He was ordained a Roman Catholic diocesan priest in 1881. On 26 April 1906 he was elected bishop of Hildesheim, an election that received papal confirmation on 12 June 1906.
Eight years later, on 8 September 1914, the Pope confirmed his election by the cathedral chapter of Breslau as bishop of that see, and he took possession of it on 28 October. Since 1824 the title Prince-Bishop of Breslau was a merely honorific title granted to the incumbents of the see, without a prince-bishopric of secular rule wielded by the incumbent, but granting a seat in the Prussian House of Lords and in the Austrian House of Lords. This, however, was abolished when Austria and Prussia became republican after 1918. Bertram continued to use the title of prince-bishop also thereafter until he was ranked Archbishop of Breslau on 13 August 1930.
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