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He served as <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Archdiocese_of_Utrecht" title="Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Utrecht">Archbishop of Utrecht</a> from 1983 to 2007, and was made a <a href="/wiki/Cardinal_(Catholic_Church)" title="Cardinal (Catholic Church)">cardinal</a> in 1985. </p><table class="infobox vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above n" style="font-size:125%;color: #202122; background-color: #FFA4A4;"><div class="honorific-prefix" style="font-size: 77%; font-weight: normal;display:inline;"><a href="/wiki/His_Eminence" class="mw-redirect" title="His Eminence">His Eminence</a></div><br><div style="display:inline" class="fn">Adrianus Johannes Simonis</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader role"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cardinal_(Catholic_Church)" title="Cardinal (Catholic Church)">Cardinal</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Archdiocese_of_Utrecht" title="Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Utrecht">Archbishop Emeritus of Utrecht</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Primate_(bishop)" title="Primate (bishop)">Primate Emeritus of the Netherlands</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Bisschoppenconferentie_in_Maarsen._Bisschop_Simonis,_Bestanddeelnr_932-0909.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Bisschoppenconferentie_in_Maarsen._Bisschop_Simonis%2C_Bestanddeelnr_932-0909.jpg/220px-Bisschoppenconferentie_in_Maarsen._Bisschop_Simonis%2C_Bestanddeelnr_932-0909.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="332" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Bisschoppenconferentie_in_Maarsen._Bisschop_Simonis%2C_Bestanddeelnr_932-0909.jpg/330px-Bisschoppenconferentie_in_Maarsen._Bisschop_Simonis%2C_Bestanddeelnr_932-0909.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Bisschoppenconferentie_in_Maarsen._Bisschop_Simonis%2C_Bestanddeelnr_932-0909.jpg/440px-Bisschoppenconferentie_in_Maarsen._Bisschop_Simonis%2C_Bestanddeelnr_932-0909.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2446" data-file-height="3692"></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Simonis in 1982</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">See</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Archdiocese_of_Utrecht" title="Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Utrecht">Utrecht</a></td></tr><tr class="note"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Installed</th><td class="infobox-data">3 December 1983</td></tr><tr class="note"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Term ended</th><td class="infobox-data">14 April 2007</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Predecessor</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Johannes_Willebrands" title="Johannes Willebrands">Johannes Willebrands</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Successor</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Wim_Eijk" title="Wim Eijk">Wim Eijk</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Other post(s)</th><td class="infobox-data">Cardinal Priest of <a href="/wiki/San_Clemente_al_Laterano" title="San Clemente al Laterano">San Clemente</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Previous post(s)</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Diocese_of_Rotterdam" title="Roman Catholic Diocese of Rotterdam">Bishop of Rotterdam</a> (1970–1983)</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background-color:#DDDDDD;">Orders</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Ordination</th><td class="infobox-data">15 June 1957<br>by Martien Antoon Jansen</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Consecration</th><td class="infobox-data">20 March 1971<br>by <a href="/wiki/Bernardus_Johannes_Alfrink" title="Bernardus Johannes Alfrink">Bernardus Johannes Alfrink</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Created cardinal</th><td class="infobox-data">25 May 1985<br>by <a href="/wiki/Pope_John_Paul_II" title="Pope John Paul II">John Paul II</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Rank</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Cardinal_priest" class="mw-redirect" title="Cardinal priest">Cardinal priest</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background-color:#DDDDDD;">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1931-11-26</span>)</span>26 November 1931<br><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Lisse" title="Lisse">Lisse</a>, Netherlands</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">2 September 2020<span style="display:none">(2020-09-02)</span> (aged 88)<br><a href="/wiki/Voorhout" title="Voorhout">Voorhout</a>, Netherlands</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Nationality</th><td class="infobox-data category">Dutch</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Denomination</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Catholic">Roman Catholic</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Motto</th><td class="infobox-data"><span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la">Ut cognoscant te</i></span><br>('So that they may know you')</td></tr></tbody></table> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header"><div style="font-weight:bold; background-color: #FFCF00 ;"> <span style="font-size:100%">Ordination history of</span><br><span style="font-size:125%;">Adrianus Johannes Simonis</span></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="background-color: transparent; color: var( --color-base ); border-collapse:collapse; border-spacing:0px; border:none; width:100%; margin:0px; font-size:100%; clear:none; float:none"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:100%; padding-left:2em; background-color:#eee"><span style="font-size:100%;">History</span></th></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background:#f2f2f2;"><div style="background:#f2f2f2; border-bottom: 3px solid #800080; border-top: 3px solid #800080">Episcopal consecration</div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Consecrated by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Bernardus_Johannes_Alfrink" title="Bernardus Johannes Alfrink">Bernardus Johannes Alfrink</a> (<a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Archdiocese_of_Utrecht" title="Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Utrecht">Utrecht</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Date</th><td class="infobox-data">20 March 1971</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="background-color: transparent; color: var( --color-base ); border-collapse:collapse; border-spacing:0px; border:none; width:100%; margin:0px; font-size:100%; clear:none; float:none"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:100%; padding-left:2em; background-color:#eee"><span style="font-size:100%;">Episcopal succession</span></th></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header"><div style="background:#f2f2f2; border-bottom: 3px solid #800080; border-top: 3px solid #800080">Bishops consecrated by Adrianus Johannes Simonis as principal consecrator</div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Philippe_B%C3%A4r" title="Philippe Bär">Philippe Bär</a></th><td class="infobox-data">20 March 1982</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Frans_Wiertz" title="Frans Wiertz">Frans Wiertz</a></th><td class="infobox-data">25 September 1993</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Ad_van_Luyn" title="Ad van Luyn">Ad van Luyn</a></th><td class="infobox-data">12 February 1994</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Wim_Eijk" title="Wim Eijk">Wim Eijk</a></th><td class="infobox-data">6 November 1999</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Gerard_de_Korte" title="Gerard de Korte">Gerard de Korte</a></th><td class="infobox-data">2 June 2001</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-weight: normal; background-color: #ffa4a4;"><span style="font-size:80%">Styles of</span><br><b><span class="fn">Adrianus Johannes Simonis</span></b></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Coat_of_arms_of_Adrianus_Simonis.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Coat_of_arms_of_Adrianus_Simonis.svg/200px-Coat_of_arms_of_Adrianus_Simonis.svg.png" decoding="async" width="200" height="211" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Coat_of_arms_of_Adrianus_Simonis.svg/300px-Coat_of_arms_of_Adrianus_Simonis.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Coat_of_arms_of_Adrianus_Simonis.svg/400px-Coat_of_arms_of_Adrianus_Simonis.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1146" data-file-height="1211"></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Style_(manner_of_address)" class="mw-redirect" title="Style (manner of address)">Reference style</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/His_Eminence" class="mw-redirect" title="His Eminence">His Eminence</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spoken style</th><td class="infobox-data">Your Eminence</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Informal style</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Cardinal_(Catholic_Church)" title="Cardinal (Catholic Church)">Cardinal</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Episcopal_see" title="Episcopal see">See</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Archdiocese_of_Utrecht" title="Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Utrecht">Utrecht</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none"><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><span class="toctogglespan"><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></span></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Biography"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Biography</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#Controversy"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Controversy</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="#References"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="#External_links"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">External links</span></a></li> </ul> </div> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(1)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="Biography">Biography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Adrianus_Johannes_Simonis&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biography" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section class="mf-section-1 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-1"> <p>Simonis was born in <a href="/wiki/Lisse" title="Lisse">Lisse</a>, <a href="/wiki/South_Holland" title="South Holland">South Holland</a>, the second eldest of eleven children. He studied at the <a href="/wiki/Seminary" title="Seminary">Seminary</a> of Hageveld from 1945 to 1951, and at the <a href="/wiki/Major_Seminary,_Warmond" title="Major Seminary, Warmond">Major Seminary, Warmond</a>, from 1951 to 1957. He was <a href="/wiki/Holy_orders" title="Holy orders">ordained</a> to the priesthood by Bishop Martien Jansen on 15 June 1957, and then did pastoral work in the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Diocese_of_Rotterdam" title="Roman Catholic Diocese of Rotterdam">Diocese of Rotterdam</a> until 1959, serving as <a href="/wiki/Curate" title="Curate">curate</a> at the parish of Saint Victor in <a href="/wiki/Waddinxveen" title="Waddinxveen">Waddinxveen</a> and later at the parish Holy Martyrs Gorinchem in <a href="/wiki/Rotterdam" title="Rotterdam">Rotterdam</a>. </p><p>From 1959 to 1966, he furthered his studies in Rome at the <a href="/wiki/Pontifical_University_of_St._Thomas_Aquinas_(Angelicum)" class="mw-redirect" title="Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum)">Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum)</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Pontifical_Biblical_Institute" title="Pontifical Biblical Institute">Pontifical Biblical Institute</a>, from where he obtained a doctorate <i><a href="/wiki/Cum_laude" class="mw-redirect" title="Cum laude">cum laude</a></i> in <a href="/wiki/Biblical_exegesis" class="mw-redirect" title="Biblical exegesis">biblical exegesis</a> with a thesis entitled: "Jesus as the <a href="/wiki/Good_Shepherd" title="Good Shepherd">Good Shepherd</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Gospel_of_John" title="Gospel of John">Gospel of Saint John</a>". Following his return to the Netherlands, he served as pastor of the parish of Blessed Sacrament in <a href="/wiki/The_Hague" title="The Hague">The Hague</a> (1966–1970) and chaplain in the Red Cross Hospital. He became a <a href="/wiki/Canon_(priest)" class="mw-redirect" title="Canon (priest)">canon</a> of the cathedral <a href="/wiki/Chapter_(religion)" title="Chapter (religion)">chapter</a> of Rotterdam in March 1969. </p><p>He was associated with the conservative side of the Dutch church, which was very divided in the years following the Second Vatican Council. He later disputed the label, telling an interviewer: "They say 'conservative', but I say with Saint Paul: 'Test all things; hold fast what is good'. In that sense I am conservative."<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Pope_Paul_VI" title="Pope Paul VI">Pope Paul VI</a> named him <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Diocese_of_Rotterdam" title="Roman Catholic Diocese of Rotterdam">Bishop of Rotterdam</a> on 29 December 1970, at the age of 39.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Pope_John_Paul_II" title="Pope John Paul II">Pope John Paul II</a> appointed Simonis <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Archdiocese_of_Utrecht" title="Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Utrecht">Archbishop Coadjutor of Utrecht</a> on 27 June 1983<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and he succeeded as archbishop there upon the resignation of Cardinal <a href="/wiki/Johannes_Willebrands" title="Johannes Willebrands">Johannes Willebrands</a> on 3 December 1983. On 6 December he was made a member of the <a href="/wiki/Congregation_for_the_Evangelization_of_Peoples" title="Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples">Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A former president of the Dutch Bishops' Conference, Simonis was a major supporter of Pope John Paul's visit to the Netherlands in 1985. </p><p>He was elevated to the <a href="/wiki/College_of_Cardinals" title="College of Cardinals">College of Cardinals</a> during the <a href="/wiki/Papal_consistory" title="Papal consistory">consistory</a> of 25 May 1985, as <a href="/wiki/Cardinal-Priest" class="mw-redirect" title="Cardinal-Priest">Cardinal-Priest</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Basilica_of_San_Clemente" class="mw-redirect" title="Basilica of San Clemente">Basilica of San Clemente</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> making him the seventh cardinal of the Dutch Church. He was a member of the <a href="/wiki/Congregation_for_Institutes_of_Consecrated_Life_and_Societies_of_Apostolic_Life" class="mw-redirect" title="Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life">Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life</a>, and of the <a href="/wiki/Congregation_for_Catholic_Education" title="Congregation for Catholic Education">Congregation for Catholic Education</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Pontifical_Council_for_Promoting_Christian_Unity" class="mw-redirect" title="Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity">Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity</a>. He held these memberships until his 80th birthday on 26 November 2011. </p><p>Simonis was one of the <a href="/wiki/Cardinal_electors_in_Papal_conclave,_2005" class="mw-redirect" title="Cardinal electors in Papal conclave, 2005">cardinal electors</a> who participated in the <a href="/wiki/Papal_conclave,_2005" class="mw-redirect" title="Papal conclave, 2005">2005 papal conclave</a> that elected <a href="/wiki/Pope_Benedict_XVI" title="Pope Benedict XVI">Pope Benedict XVI</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Simonis sent his letter of resignation as Archbishop of Utrecht to Pope Benedict on 13 November 2006, and the Pope accepted it on 14 April 2007, two months before Simonis celebrated his <a href="/wiki/Golden_jubilee" title="Golden jubilee">golden jubilee</a> as a priest on 15 June. Simonis continued to govern the archdiocese as <a href="/wiki/Apostolic_Administrator" class="mw-redirect" title="Apostolic Administrator">Apostolic Administrator</a> until his successor, <a href="/wiki/Wim_Eijk" title="Wim Eijk">Wim Eijk</a>, who was appointed on 11 December of the same year, took possession of the see on 28 January 2008. </p><p>Simonis died on 2 September 2020 at a care centre in <a href="/wiki/Voorhout" title="Voorhout">Voorhout</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(2)"><span class="indicator mf-icon mf-icon-expand mf-icon--small"></span><h2 id="Controversy">Controversy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Adrianus_Johannes_Simonis&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Controversy" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> <span class="minerva-icon minerva-icon--edit"></span> <span>edit</span> </a> </span> </div><section class="mf-section-2 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-2"> <p>In 2011, Simonis testified on 25 January that he had no role in the appointment or dismissal of a Catholic priest accused of drugging and raping a young man. The brief appearance by Simonis at Middelburg District Court marked the first time such a senior cleric had appeared in a Dutch courtroom to answer questions about abuse in the church. The victim, Dave ten Hoor, says he was drugged and raped twice by the priest, identified only as Father Jan N., in 1989 and 1990 in the southern town of <a href="/wiki/Terneuzen" title="Terneuzen">Terneuzen</a>. "I do not know him at all," Simonis said of Father Jan, adding that he had nothing to do with his appointment as a priest in Terneuzen. Simonis was drawn into the case because before moving to Terneuzen, Father Jan also allegedly abused children at a youth centre run by the <a href="/wiki/Salesian_order" class="mw-redirect" title="Salesian order">Salesian order</a> in <a href="/wiki/Rijswijk" title="Rijswijk">Rijswijk</a>, a town just outside <a href="/wiki/The_Hague" title="The Hague">The Hague</a>. At the time, Simonis was Bishop of Rotterdam and Rijswijk fell within his diocese. However Simonis said he had visited the centre just once for a party and did not recall meeting the priest, though he did not rule out that he may have been introduced to him.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to Radio Netherlands World: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>The cardinal was told by the then bishop of Rotterdam, <a href="/wiki/Philippe_B%C3%A4r" title="Philippe Bär">Philippe Bär</a>, that the priest had sexually abused underage boys in his parish in <a href="/wiki/Zoetermeer" title="Zoetermeer">Zoetermeer</a>. Bishop Bär wanted the priest out of his diocese. Archbishop Simonis then arranged for the man to be moved to a parish in <a href="/wiki/Amersfoort" title="Amersfoort">Amersfoort</a>. </p><p>The cardinal kept the Amersfoort parish in the dark about the priest's <a href="/wiki/Paedophile" class="mw-redirect" title="Paedophile">paedophile</a> behaviour and convictions. The priest himself says the cardinal did nothing to monitor how the situation developed. </p><p> Parents who complained about the priest to Simonis were given no assistance. Hanneke Brunt, whose altar-boy son was abused: "Simonis told me – 'This doesn’t go on in the Roman Catholic Church. We don’t do that.<span style="padding-right:.15em;">'</span>" Abuse victim Erwin Meester says Simonis "wilfully and knowingly gave a paedophile his protection, when he should have been protecting the faithful under his care".<sup id="cite_ref-BBCaccused_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBCaccused-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>Simonis commented on the abuse in an interview on <i><a href="/wiki/Pauw_%26_Witteman" title="Pauw & Witteman">Pauw & Witteman</a></i>. 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Willebrands</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Archdiocese_of_Utrecht" title="Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Utrecht">Archbishop of Utrecht</a> </b><br>3 December 1983–14 April 2007 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Wim_Eijk" title="Wim Eijk">Wim Eijk</a></div> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Lawrence_Shehan" title="Lawrence Shehan">Lawrence Shehan</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/Cardinal-Priest" class="mw-redirect" title="Cardinal-Priest">Cardinal-Priest</a> of <a href="/wiki/Basilica_di_San_Clemente" class="mw-redirect" title="Basilica di San Clemente">San Clemente</a> </b><br>25 May 1985–2 September 2020 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" 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