Jean-Claude Hollerich

Jean -Claude Hollerech SJ ( born August 9, 1958 in Differdange) is a Luxembourgian theologian and Archbishop of Luxembourg.

Life

Hollerech, who grew up in Vianden, attended the École Apostolique by Claire Fontaine and the Lycée Classique Diekirch. 1978 to 1981 he studied Catholic theology and philosophy at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. On September 27, 1981, he joined the Congregation of the Society of Jesus. After a novitiate at Namur from 1981 to 1983 a pastoral internship from 1983 to 1985 was followed in Luxembourg. On September 15, 1985 Hollerech traveled to Japan and studied until 1989 the local language and culture and theology at Sophia University in Tokyo. Back in Europe, he acquired from 1989 to 1990 the Theology Licentiate of Philosophy and Theology at the University of Sankt Georgen in Frankfurt am Main. On April 21, 1990, he received priestly ordination in Brussels. This was followed from 1990 to 1994, a Licentiate in German Language and Literature at the Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich. By 2001 Hollerech graduate student was in Bonn at the Center for European Integration Studies. On October 18, 2002 Jean -Claude Hollerech put his religious profession in the St. Ignatius Church in Tokyo. He is a member of the Japanese Jesuit Province, was a professor of German and French and is Vice- Rector of the Sophia University in Tokyo.

Pope Benedict XVI. appointed Hollerech 12 July 2011 Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Luxembourg. He succeeds Archbishop Fernand Franck. He received his episcopal consecration on October 16, 2011 in the cathedral of Luxembourg its predecessor, Archbishop Fernand Franck; Co-consecrators were the Archbishop of Cologne, Cardinal Joachim Meisner, and the Archbishop of Tokyo, Peter Takeo Okada. He is the eighth Bishop and third Archbishop of Luxembourg.

Jean -Claude Hollerech is a member of the Catholic Student Association AV Edo - Tokyo Rhenaniastraße and the AV Rheinstein Cologne in CV since 1994.

Works

  • Narrativity in the Constantinopolitan Creed, in Sophia Linguistica, N. 37 (1994 )
  • Different Way of Dialogue, in: Bulletin of Universities and Institutes, Sophia University, N. 29 (1994 )
  • The origin of the grammar school, in: Bulletin of Universities and Institutes, Sophia University, N. 30 (1995 )
  • The emergence of a national consciousness in Luxembourg, in: Bulletin of Universities and Institutes, Sophia University, N. 32 (1997)
Doctorate Holy orders Notre-Dame Cathedral, Luxembourg Tageblatt Nicolas Adames Joseph Laurent Philippe Jean Hengen
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