Jean Kockerols

Jean Kockerols ( born August 13, 1958 in Brecht) is Auxiliary Bishop of Mechelen -Brussels.

Life

Jean Kockerols initially studied law with a focus on maritime law and worked as a lawyer at Compagnie Maritime Belge, a Belgian shipping company, operates. he committed himself to Jean Vanier and L' Arche des entered the seminary and studied philosophy and Catholic theology and received on 18 September 1993 in Brussels, the ordination. He completed studies in canon law and philosophy. At the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, he received his doctorate in theology. In 1995 he became vicar in Etterbeek in Notre- Dame du Sacré- coeur. In 2006 he was appointed chancellor of the Archbishop's Seminary in Brussels, where he accompanied the young priest candidates. In 2004 he became pastor in Uccle Saint - Pierre .. In 2007 he was dean of Brussels-South. Rr was head of the He was at the Institut d' Etudes théologiques in Brussels, the " Centre d' études et théologiques pastoral " ( CETEP ) in Brussels, as well as founding director of the " Centre d' études pastoral " (CEP ) of the diocese.

Pope Benedict XVI. appointed him on 22 February 2011 as Auxiliary Bishop of Mechelen -Brussels and titular bishop of Ypres. The Archbishop of Mechelen -Brussels, André -Joseph Léonard consecrated him with Jean- Luc Hudsyn on April 3 of the same year the bishop; Godfried Cardinal Danneels were co-consecrators, retired archbishop of Mechelen -Brussels, and Giacinto Berloco, Apostolic Nuncio to Belgium and Luxembourg. As a motto he chose Beati invitati ad CENAM Domini.

Kockerols is a member of the Commission of the Bishops ' Conferences of the European Community ( COMECE) and its vice-president since 2011.