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Willem Jacobus "Wim" Eijk (born 22 June 1953) is a Dutch cardinal of the Catholic Church. On 11 December 2007 Pope Benedict XVI appointed Eijk the Metropolitan Archbishop of Utrecht〔Cf. (Holy See Press Office, ''Daily Bulletin of 11.12.2007, Rinunce e nomine, Nomina dell’Arcivescovo Metropolita di Utrecht (Paesi Bassi)'' ) 〕 and, on 26 January 2008 Eijk was installed in the St. Catharine's Cathedral in Utrecht. He is the 70th successor of Saint Willibrord (658–739)〔(Reportret: Willibrord )〕 on the See of Utrecht. He was formerly Bishop of Groningen-Leeuwarden. On 18 February 2012, Pope Benedict XVI made him a cardinal. ==Early life and studies== Willem Jacobus Eijk was born on 22 June 1953 in Duivendrecht, North Holland, Netherlands. Eijk studied medicine at the University of Amsterdam and received his degree in 1978. After an intensive deliberation with then Bishop Simonis, he started at the seminary of Rolduc in Kerkrade to become a priest. From 1979 he combined his theological formation with the study of medical ethics at Leiden University. He was ordained to priesthood in 1985 and was incardinated in the Diocese of Roermond.〔 Then he went to work as a curate in the parish of St. Anthony of Padua in Venlo Blerick. In 1987 he completed a PhD degree in medicine, with a dissertation about euthanasia. Eijk is an alumnus of the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas ''Angelicum'' where in 1990 he completed a PhD in philosophy〔http://www.katholieknederland.nl/actualiteit/2007/detail_objectID616608_FJaar2007.html Biografie aartsbisschop Wim Eijk (Actualiteit | Katholiek Nederland ] )〕 with a dissertation entitled ''The ethical problems of genetic engineering of human beings''.〔http://www.communio.nl/index.php?id=19&taal=nl Accessed 16 September 2013〕 Eijk also gained a master's degree and doctorate in theology at the Pontifical Lateran University of Rome. At the same time he taught moral theology at the seminary of Rolduc. From 1996, Eijk was Professor of moral theology at Lugano in Switzerland, in pontifical Faculty of Theology there. From 1997 to 2002 he was a member of the International Theological Commission. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wim Eijk」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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