Everardus Johannes (Everard) de Jong (July 4, 1958) is a Dutch

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of the

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. He is

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since 1999.Hulpbisschop Everard de Jong wil heel Nederland katholiek maken

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, 11-03-2004

Early life and education

Born in Eindhoven de Jong is the oldest of six children. From 1970 until 1973 he studied at the lower technical school (LTS) at the Piuslane, specialising in metalwork, and from 1973 until 1976 he studied at the catholic middle technical school (MTS) at the Egelstraat in Eindhoven, specialising in electronics. In 1976 he went to the seminary

Rolduc Rolduc is a medieval abbey located on the edge of the town of Kerkrade in the far south-east of the Netherlands. It is today a Roman Catholic seminary with an affiliated conference center. The abbey is a ''rijksmonument'' (Dutch national herit ...

, the school for priests of the diocese of Roermond. He was ordained a

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on September 18, 1982 and was appointed to the parish of Saint Gertrudis in

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. He was ordained a priest on May 28, 1983, and worked as a chaplain for another year. In 1984 bishop

Joannes Gijsen Joannes Baptist Matthijs Gijsen (October 7, 1932 – June 24, 2013) was a Dutch bishop of the Roman Catholic Church. After being Bishop (emeritus) of Roermond, Limburg, the Netherlands, he became Bishop (emeritus) of the Diocese of Reykjavík (I ...

send him to Rome to study philosophy at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, ''Angelicum'', where he received his licentiate in 1986. He then went to

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in Washington DC, where he studied with Prof. William Wallace, and in 1989, was promoted to doctor in philosophy on the thesis ''Galileo Galilei's Logical treatises and Giacomo Zabarella's Opera logica. A Comparison.''

Church career

After his return to the Netherlands, De Jong taught philosophy at the seminary Rolduc and became responsible for youth, calling and evangelisation within the diocese. In 1994, bishop Wiertz made him chaplain of the

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, retaining his other functions. In 1995, he became priest for the students of Maastricht, and on December 11, 1998, he was made vicar-general of the diocese of Roermond. The next day,

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appointed him as auxiliary bishop of Roermond and titular bishop of Cariana. He was consecrated as bishop on 6 February 1999, from

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, the Bishop of Roermond. On April 4, 1999, he became a

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of the chapter of the cathedral of Roermond. On June 1, 2020,

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gave him additional appointment as

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of the Military Ordinariate of Netherlands, while continuing to serve as auxiliary bishop of Roermond.

References

External links

Biography of Everard de Jong
on the website of the diocese of Roermond

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jong, Everard de 1958 births Living people 20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in the Netherlands 21st-century Roman Catholic bishops in the Netherlands People from Eindhoven