Godfried Danneels
Godfried Maria Jules Danneels Cardinal ( born June 4, 1933 Kanegem, today a district of Tielt, Belgium) is Emeritus Archbishop of Mechelen -Brussels.
Life
Godfried Danneels completed his theological studies with the acquisition of the licentiate in Catholic Theology and received August 17, 1957 in Bruges, the sacrament of Holy Orders. In 1959, he was spiritual director of the seminary of Bruges, in 1961 he earned his doctorate at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. From 1969 to 1977 he served as professor of theology at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
On November 4, 1977, Pope Paul VI appointed him. Bishop of Antwerp. The bishop He was ordained by the then Archbishop of Mechelen -Brussels, Léon- Joseph Cardinal Suenens, on December 18, 1977 His motto is:. Apparuit humanitas Dei nostri.
Two years later, on 19 December 1979, Pope John Paul II appointed him head of the Archdiocese of Mechelen -Brussels and took him on 2 February 1983 as a cardinal priest with the titular church of Santa Anastasia in the College of Cardinals to.
He was chairman of the Belgian Bishops' Conference and since September 15, 1980 was professor of the Military Chaplaincy (military bishop) in his home country.
Danneels and his Auxiliary Bishop Paul Lanneau was accused in a lawsuit that he had his duty of supervision over a clergy of his diocese injured, who had been sentenced to six years in prison for several dozen child abuse. In the first instance Danneels and Lanneau were sentenced to the equivalent of 12,500 euros fine. In October 1998, an appeals court Danneels from allegations of civil responsibility on the grounds acquitted, that between a bishop and a priest no dependency ratio, which could justify a conviction would.
Godfried Danneels was a participant at Conclave 2005, in which Benedict XVI. was chosen. By the mid- 1990s, he was one of the youngest papabili. On 18 January 2010 took this Danneels ' on grounds of age pre- mounted resignation from the office of the Archbishop of Mechelen -Brussels. As one of the oldest Cardinal electors, he also took part in the conclave of 2013.
Danneels has a penchant for art and is considered an intellectual.
Membership in the Roman Curia
- Secretariat of State ( second section )
- Congregation for the Oriental Churches
- Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments
- Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples
- Congregation for Catholic Education