19 Facts About Albert Vanhoye

Albert Vanhoye taught at the Pontifical Biblical Institute from 1963 to 1998 and served as its rector from 1984 to 1990.

Albert Vanhoye was Secretary of the Pontifical Biblical Commission from 1990 to 2001.

Albert Vanhoye was made a cardinal by Pope Benedict XVI in 2006 and led the Lenten retreat for the Roman Curia in 2008.

Albert Vanhoye entered the Society of Jesus on 11 September 1941 in Le Vignau, Landes, and took his first vows on 15 November 1944.

Albert Vanhoye studied at Jesuit Scholasticates in France and Belgium.

Albert Vanhoye obtained a licentiate in classical literature at the Sorbonne and another in theology from the University of Enghien.

Albert Vanhoye received a Doctorate in Sacred Scripture with a thesis on the literary structure of the Letter to the Hebrews from the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome in 1961.

Albert Vanhoye was ordained a priest of the Society of Jesus on 25 July 1954 in Enghien, Belgium.

Albert Vanhoye took his final vows as a Jesuit on 2 February 1959.

Albert Vanhoye was a member of the commission that prepared the apostolic constitution Sapientia Christiana on ecclesiastical universities and faculties, which Pope John Paul II issued in 1979.

Albert Vanhoye was a consultor of several dicasteries of the Roman Curia: the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity from 1980 to 1996, the Congregation for Catholic Education beginning in 1976, and the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith beginning in 1990.

Albert Vanhoye was Secretary of the Pontifical Biblical Commission from 1990 to 2001, under its president Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, later Pope Benedict XVI.

In that post, Albert Vanhoye played an important role in two important studies that, in the words of a Jesuit appraisal, "extended the work of the [Second Vatican] Council": L'Interpretation de la Bible dans l'Eglise and Le Peuple juif et ses saintes Ecritures dans la Bible chretienne.

Albert Vanhoye retired from teaching when he turned 75 in 1998.

Albert Vanhoye was made Cardinal-Deacon of Santa Maria della Mercede e Sant'Adriano a Villa Albani by Pope Benedict XVI at the consistory of 24 March 2006.

Albert Vanhoye led the 2008 Lenten Retreat for the Curia.

Albert Vanhoye drew on the work produced at the end of his tenure at the Biblical Commission and published in November 2001 as The Jewish People and the Holy Scriptures in the Christian Bible.

Albert Vanhoye served as Grand Prior of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George from 2008 until his appointment by Prince Carlo, Duke of Castro, in November 2010 as Ecclesiastical Counsellor to the Royal House of Bourbon Two Sicilies.

Albert Vanhoye died in Rome on 29 July 2021, five days after his 98th birthday.