Wim Eijk

Also known as Willem Jacobus Eĳk

Catholic cardinal

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: Norway
Active from: 1981-03-21

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Discography

Where I Belong1999
That’s What She Said2018

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5 total works indexed

New Algorithms and Methods to Estimate Maximum-Likelihood Phylogenies: Assessing the Performance of PhyML 3.0
· 2010 · cited 16,710x
Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet
· 2015 · cited 9,013x
Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems
· 2019 · cited 8,827x
Endovascular thrombectomy after large-vessel ischaemic stroke: a meta-analysis of individual patient data from five randomised trials
· 2016 · cited 6,996x
A Randomized Trial of Intraarterial Treatment for Acute Ischemic Stroke
· 2015 · cited 5,753x

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Quotes

“Secularization began with increasing prosperity. Prosperity leads to individualization, and individualization to secularization. In the Netherlands, this happened when prosperity increased at an unprecedented rate, [starting in 1965].”

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Key facts

Church: Catholic
Archdiocese: Utrecht
Appointed: 11 December 2007
Installed: 26 January 2008
Predecessor: Adrianus Johannes Simonis
Other posts: President of the Bishops' Conference of the Netherlands Cardinal-Priest of San Callisto (2012 ‍ – ‍ present)
Previous post: Bishop of Groningen-Leeuwarden (1999 ‍ – ‍ 2007)
Ordination: 1 June 1985, by Joannes Baptist Matthijs Gijsen
Consecration: 6 November 1999, by Adrianus Johannes Simonis
Created cardinal: 18 February 2012, by Benedict XVI
Rank: Cardinal-Priest
Born: Willem Jacobus Eijk , ( 1953-06-22 ) 22 June 1953 (age 72) , Duivendrecht , Netherlands
Education: University of Amsterdam (Medicine) Rolduc (Seminary) Leiden University (MD, Medicine) Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (PhD, Philosophy) Pontifical Lateran University (Licentiate, Theology)
Motto: Noli Recusare Laborem , ( Latin for ' Do Not Reject the Work ' )

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date of birth: 1953-06-22
birth name: Willem Jacobus Eijk
name in native language: Willem Jacobus Eijk
floruit: 2012-01-01
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Willem Jacobus "Wim" Eijk (born 22 June 1953) is a Dutch prelate of the Catholic Church, a cardinal since 2012. He has been the Metropolitan Archbishop of Utrecht since 2007. He was Bishop of Groningen-Leeuwarden from 1999 to 2007. Before his clerical career, he worked as a medical doctor; as a priest, he made medical ethics the focus of his academic studies. He has done his doctoral studies in medicine and philosophy, and also holds a licentiate in theology.