Ad van Luyn
Adrianus Herman van Luyn SDB - short Ad van Luyn ( born August 10, 1935 in Groningen) is a retired bishop of Rotterdam and since January 2008 Chairman of the Dutch Bishops' Conference. His heraldic motto is: Collabora Gospel.
Life and work
Van Luyn was born the fifth of ten children in Groningen. He went from 1948 to the minor seminary of the Salesians of Don Bosco in Ugchelen and decided, as well as two of his brothers, Salesians of Don Bosco to be. In 1954 he made his first vows. In 1955 he began his philosophical studies for the teaching profession in Twello. After some hands-on activities, he continued his studies with theology at the Athenaeum of the Salesians of Don Bosco in Turin and then in The Hague. In 1964, he graduated with a theological licentiate and received on 9 February 1964, the ordination by the Nuncio Beltrami in 's -Heer mountain. After further practical work as a teacher of Latin and Greek in 's -Heer Mountain and The Hague, he enrolled for doctoral studies in systematic theology at the Catholic University of Nijmegen. During this time he was in office in Nijmegen prefect of studies. In 1969 he took his dogmatic doctoral exams. From 1969 to 1974 he was director of the Salesian Theologikums in Nijmegen and acted as secretary of the Provincial. He also taught at the Albertinum Nijmegen fundamental theology.
From 1969 to 1975 he was Vicar Provincial and 1975-1981 Provincial of the Dutch Province of the Salesians of Don Bosco. As early as 1978 he was involved in the work of the Dutch Bishops' Conference. 1980 Pope John Paul II made him the head of the Special Synod of Bishops in the Netherlands in Rome. The Congregation of the Salesians of Don Bosco in 1981 appointed him to the person responsible for the study, houses the Pontifical Salesian University in Rome. With his appointment as Secretary General of the Roman Catholic Church in the Netherlands cooperative, he returned in 1991 to the Netherlands. Pope John Paul II appointed him on 27 November 1993 successor to Ronald Philippe Bär, OSB as the fourth Bishop of Rotterdam. The episcopal ordination took place on February 12, 1994 Cardinal Simonis, Monsignor Huub Ernst and Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone SDB. In January 1995, he took over from Bishop Ernst the position as Chief of the Dutch section of the Catholic peace movement Pax Christi. From 1999 to 2006 worked the polyglot Bishop as vice president from 2006 to 2009, Chairman of the 1980 launched EU Episcopal Commission COMECE.
Since January 2008 he is also Chairman of the Bishops' Conference of the Netherlands. Van Luyn also part of the Papal Cultural Council. In 2010 he received the accolade for the Knights of the Holy grave in Jerusalem.
On 14 January 2011, Pope Benedict XVI. that of Adrianus Herman van Luyn put forward reasons of age resignation from the office of Bishop of Rotterdam.
Works
- Subsidiarity - a building block not only for Europe ( Church and Society, Green Series, ed central office of the Catholic Social Science No. 404. ), JP Bachem Media Arts, Cologne, 2013, ISBN 978-3-7616-2689-4.