Joris August Odilius Ludovicus Vercammen (born 14 October 1952) served as the
Old Catholic
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Archbishop of Utrecht
List of bishops and archbishops of the diocese and archdioceses of Utrecht.
Medieval diocese from 695 to 1580
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of the
Old Catholic Church of the Netherlands
The Old Catholic Church of the Netherlands ( nl, Oud-Katholieke Kerk van Nederland), sometimes known as the Dutch Roman Catholic Church of the Old Episcopal Order, the Church of Utrecht (Ultrajectine Church), or Jansenist Church of Holland, is an ...
from 1 July 2000 to 11 January 2020.
Life and career
Vercammen was born in
Lier,
Belgium
Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to th ...
, in 1952. In 1979, he was ordained a priest for the
Roman Catholic Diocese of Antwerp. In 1988, he left the
Roman Catholic Church
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and joined the Old Catholic
Diocese of Utrecht.
Vercammen was serving as director of the
Old Catholic
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seminary when clergy and laity of the archdiocese elected him as the 83rd
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Medieval diocese from 695 to 1580
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. He was consecrated on 1 July 2000 at
St. Martin's Cathedral, Utrecht, once the see of
Willibrord
Willibrord (; 658 – 7 November AD 739) was an Anglo-Saxon missionary and saint, known as the "Apostle to the Frisians" in the modern Netherlands. He became the first bishop of Utrecht and died at Echternach, Luxembourg.
Early life
His fath ...
and his successors, but in the hands of the
Dutch Reformed Church
The Dutch Reformed Church (, abbreviated NHK) was the largest Christian denomination in the Netherlands from the onset of the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century until 1930. It was the original denomination of the Dutch Royal Family and ...
since 1580.
In 2006, the ninth Assembly of the
World Council of Churches
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in Porto Alegre made Vercammen a member of its central committee.
Official Report of the WCC 9th Assembly
Appendix IV (p. 437)
On 19 September 2019, Vercammen announced that he would resign as Archbishop of Utrecht effective 11 January 2020.
Vercammen is married and has three children.
References
External links
Archbishop Joris Vercammen
(WCC)
1952 births
Living people
Dutch Old Catholics
Dutch Old Catholic bishops
People from Lier, Belgium
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