” “Mgr. Adrianus Herman van Luyn, bishop of Rotterdam, is the new president of the Dutch Bishops Conference. He was appointed yesterday by the Dutch Bishops; the deputy president will be the bishop of Roermond, mgr. Franciscus Jozef Maria Wiertz. They will take their post on January 26th when the diocese of Utrecht will be taken over by mgr. Willem Jacobus Eijk, in replacement of card. Adrianus Johannes Simonis, the outgoing president. Van Luyn, who is also the president of Comece (Commission of the EU Bishops Conferences), has been the bishop of Rotterdam since 1994. Bishop Wiertz, instead, has headed the diocese of Roermond since 1993, and since 2005 he has been a member of the Permanent Bishops Council as well as a director of the Pastoral of Media and Communication. ” “
