Hermann Volk

Styles of Hermann Volk
Reference style	His Eminence
Spoken style	Your Eminence
Informal style	Cardinal
See	Mainz (emeritus)

Hermann Volk (27 December 1903 – 1 July 1988) was a German Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Mainz from 1962 to 1982, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1973.

Hermann Volk was born in Steinheim to Franz Volk, an upholsterer, and his wife Catharina Josepha Kaiser. He received his early education in Steinheim and Hanau, and then entered the seminary in Mainz, where he studied philosophy and theology for four years.

Volk was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Ludwig Maria Hugo on 27 April 1927. He then did pastoral work in Mainz, serving as a chaplain in Alzey (1927–1931) and in St. Ignaz (1932–1935). From 1935 to 1938 he studied at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland, from where he obtained his doctorate in philosophy, with a thesis entitled: Die Kreaturauffassung von Karl Barth, and his doctorate in theology, with a thesis on: Emil Brunners Lehre von der ursprünglichen Gottesebenbildlichkeit des Menschen.

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