Jean Jérôme Hamer

Styles of Jean Jérôme Hamer
Reference style	His Eminence
Spoken style	Your Eminence
Informal style	Cardinal
See	Lorium (titular see)

Jean Jérôme Hamer, OP, S.T.D. (1 June 1916 – 2 December 1996) was a Belgian Cardinal who was Prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life from 1985 until 1992.

He was born in Brussels and joined the Dominican order in 1934 taking the name of Jérôme. He was educated at La Sarte and Louvain University. He did his military service and, during the Second World War, spent 3 months of 1940 as a prisoner. He was ordained on 3 August 1941. He continued his studies at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, where he earned his doctorate in theology. He was on the teaching staff of the Pontificium Athenaeum Internationale Angelicum for the academic year of 1952-53. He had been a staff member at the University of Fribourg since 1944, where he then returned and taught until 1962.

He was appointed secretary of the party in 1958 Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity on 12 April 1969. Then, on 14 June 1973, he was appointed titular archbishop of Lorium and secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

He was consecrated on 29 June 1973 by Pope Paul VI. In 1974, the Congregation published a "declaration on procured abortion", re-asserting the Church's opposition to the controversial procedure since the publication of Humanae Vitae. He later helped in writing the document Persona Humana on the topic of sexual ethics.

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