Antonius Jan Glazemaker
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Antonius Jan Glazemaker (19 April 1931 – 20 January 2018) served as the twenty-first
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, from 1982 to 2000. Born on April 19, 1931 to
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parents, Glazemaker was raised in the
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during a period ecumenical initiatives and the creation of the
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. On July 1, 1956, Glazemaker was ordained to the priesthood in
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by
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Andreas Rinkel Andreas Rinkel (10 January 1889 – 25 March 1979) was a Dutch priest who served as the nineteenth Archbishop of Utrecht from 1937 to 1970. Early ministry Before serving as Archbishop of Utrecht, Rinkel served as a parish priest in Amersfoort, ...
. In 1979, he was appointed the 13th bishop of
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, an office that he assumed on December 8, 1979 in
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, where he served as pastor. On February 6, 1982, Glazemaker was elected
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, succeeding
Marinus Kok Marinus Kok (8 February 1916 - 31 July 1999) was a Dutch priest who served as the twentieth Archbishop of Utrecht from 1970 to 1982. After studying at the Old Catholic Seminary i Amersfoort, Netherlands, he was ordained to the diaconate and pri ...
, who had retired. Under his leadership, the Old Catholic Church allowed for remarriage after divorce and ordained its first
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in 1999. Glazemaker retired as
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on February 12, 2000.


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