1. Johannes Nicolaas Maria Wijngaards was a Dutch Catholic scripture scholar and a laicized priest.
14 Facts About John Wijngaards
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John Wijngaards was born on 30 September 1935 from Dietze van Hoesel and Dr Nicolaas Carel Heinrich John Wijngaards, both Dutch citizens, in the Indonesian city of Surabaya.
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John Wijngaards joined the Mill Hill Missionaries and was ordained a priest in 1959.
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John Wijngaards's studies focused on The Formulas of the Deuteronomic Creed.
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John Wijngaards served as part-time lecturer at the National Biblical Catechetical and Liturgical Centre in Bangalore and was, for a number of years, a member of the National Advisory Council of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of India.
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John Wijngaards urged the Indian hierarchy to start a process of exploring the full ordination of women.
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John Wijngaards wrote the scripts for nine half-hour film stories.
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In protest, John Wijngaards resigned from his priestly ministry on 17 September 1998.
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John Wijngaards said that speaking out does not undermine accepting the teaching authority of the Pope.
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John Wijngaards firmly opposed the illegal ordination of women outside the established structure of the Church, as is done in the so-called Roman Catholic Women Priests movement.
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From 2005, John Wijngaards focused on other issues he felt needed reform in the Catholic Church.
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John Wijngaards drafted the Catholic Scholars' Declaration on Authority in the Church which gained international support.
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John Wijngaards's Centre was reshaped to become the Wijngaards Institute for Catholic Research.
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John Wijngaards died on 2 January 2025, at the age of 89.