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My Take
I find clergy like Frank Otfried July quietly fascinating precisely because they don't trade in headlines. A Darmstadt-born Protestant theologian trained at Tübingen who rose to bishop, he built his life in a vocation measured in decades, not viral moments. What tells me he earned real respect isn't fame but the receipts: the 2010 Order of Merit of Baden-Württemberg and an honorary doctorate from his own alma mater. Those are the kinds of honors a region and an academy reserve for people who genuinely shaped them. I read him as a steady, pastoral figure, and I have a soft spot for that unglamorous, durable kind of influence.
Overview
Frank Otfried July is a bishop from Germany.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Frank Otfried July
- Name (Japanese)
- フランク・オトフリート・ユリー
- Reading
- ふらんく・おとふりーと・ゆりー
- Born
- July 17, 1954 (age 71)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Cancer / Horse
- Origin
- Darmstadt, Darmstadt Government Region, Germany
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- bishop / Protestant theologian
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- University of Tübingen
Awards & achievements
- 2010 Order of Merit of Baden-Württemberg
- honorary doctor of the University of Tübingen
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.