Hans van den Hende

Hans van den Hende (actually Johannes van den Hende Hermannes Jozefus; born January 9, 1964 in Groningen, Netherlands) is a bishop of Rotterdam.

Life

After visiting the school in Haren, he studied at the Catholic University of Utrecht Catholic theology and philosophy. On April 6, 1991 he was ordained priest. Later he studied canon law at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, where he received his doctorate in 2002 with a supervised by Gianfranco Ghirlanda as PhD supervisor dissertation on the subject of particular councils and episcopal conferences from Vatican II to the CIC in 1982.

On 1 January 2000 was appointed van den Hende of Willem Jacobus Eijk Bishop Vicar General of the diocese of Groningen- Leeuwarden.

Pope Benedict XVI. appointed Hans van den Hende on September 9, 2006 Coadjutor Bishop with right of succession by Martinus Muskens in the ministry of the Bishop of Breda. He received his episcopal consecration on November 25, 2006 in Breda his predecessor and his pre-predecessor in office, Martinus Muskens, and Hubertus Ernst, as well as the Bishop of Groningen- Leeuwarden, Willem Jacobus Eijk. His motto is Sine timore serviamus illi. Hans van den Hende, 2006 was the youngest of the Dutch bishops and the tenth bishop of the diocese of Breda since 1853, the year in which the Dutch government allowed the Vatican to re- appoint bishops in the Netherlands. On 31 October 2007 he was appointed Bishop of Breda.

Pope Benedict XVI. appointed him on 10 May 2011 for the fifth bishop of Rotterdam and successor of Adrianus Herman van Luyn. The inauguration took place on 2 July of the same year.