Johannes Willebrands
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His Eminence Johannes Willebrands |
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| Cardinal, Archbishop emeritus of Utrecht Primate of the Netherlands |
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Johannes Willebrands in 1982
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| Archdiocese | Utrecht |
| Province | Utrecht |
| See | Utrecht |
| Installed | 6 December 1975 |
| Term ended | 3 December 1983 |
| Predecessor | Bernardus Johannes Alfrink |
| Successor | Adrianus Johannes Simonis |
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| Ordination | 26 May 1934 |
| Consecration | 4 June 1964 |
| Created Cardinal | 28 April 1969 |
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| Birth name | Johannes Gerardus Maria Willebrands |
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4 September 1909 Bovenkarspel, Netherlands |
| Died | 1 August 2006 (aged 96) Denekamp, Netherlands |
| Nationality | Dutch |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
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Styles of Johannes Willebrands |
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| Reference style | His Eminence |
| Spoken style | Your Eminence |
| Informal style | Cardinal |
| See | Utrecht |
Johannes Gerardus Maria Willebrands (4 September 1909 in Bovenkarspel, North Holland – 1 August 2006) was a Dutch Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity from 1969 to 1989, and Archbishop of Utrecht from 1975 to 1983. Elevated to the cardinalate in 1969, Willebrands was central to the increased ecumenism of the Church in the second half of the 20th century, and was considered papabile at the two conclaves held in 1978.
Johannes Willebrands was born in Bovenkarspel, as the eldest of the nine children of Herman and Afra (née Kok) Willebrands. His father worked as a paymaster at the local vegetable market, and one of his brothers went on to become a Redemptorist missionary in Surinam. Willebrands studied at the seminary at Warmond near Leiden, where he was ordained to the priesthood on 26 May 1934. In 1937 he received a Doctorate in Philosophy at the Pontifical Athenaeum Angelicum in Rome with a thesis entitled John Henry Cardinal Newman Zijn denkleer en haar toepassing op de kennis van God door het geweten.
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