Georg von Kopp

Georg von Kopp (25 July 1837 – 4 March 1914) was a German Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church[1]' who served as Bishop of Fulda (1881–1887) and Prince-Bishop of Breslau (1887–1914).

He rose rapidly in his profession and in 1872 was made vicar-general at Hildesheim and three years later bishop of Fulda.

After his election to the House of Lords he obtained a mitigation of the anti-Catholic provisions which characterized the May laws.

In 1887, with the approval of the Prussian government, the Pope appointed him prince-bishop of Breslau (Wroclaw), and in 1893 he was made cardinal.

[1][4] He was honored to be listed first among the recipients of that pope’s encyclical Singulari Quadam promulgated on 24 September 1912.