Jan Pieter Schotte

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    Jan Pieter Schotte

    CICM (29 April 1928 – 10 January 2005) was a Belgian cardinal and an official of the Roman Curia
    .

    Biography

    He was born on 29 April 1928 in the town of

    The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. From 1955 to 1962, he was professor of canon law at the CICM theological seminary in Leuven and from 1957 to 1962 assistant professor at the Higher Institute of Religious Sciences, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. He was vice-rector of the CICM theological seminary in Leuven
    from 1956 to 1962. In 1963, he became rector of the Immaculate Heart mission seminary in Washington, DC, where he served until 1966. In 1967, he came to Rome as General Secretary of the Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, a post he held until 1972.

    Jan Schotte became a bishop in 1984 and an

    Apostolic See
    from 1989 until his death.

    Schotte died on 10 January 2005 in the

    at his funeral – the last while John Paul was alive.

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