Lucas Van Looy

Luc van Looy and Augustine Kasujja, Apostolic Nuncio to Belgium, in 2017.

Lucas Van Looy S.D.B. (born 28 September 1941) is a Belgian prelate of the Catholic Church who was Bishop of Ghent from 2004 to 2019. He worked as a missionary in Korea for more than a decade and held leadership positions with the Salesians from 1984 to 2003.

Biography[]

Van Looy was born in Tielen, Belgium. He studied with the Jesuits in Turnhout and Don Bosco College in Hechtel. He became a member of the Salesians of Saint John Bosco in 1961 and studied from 1962 to 1964 at their school in Groot-Bijgaarden. After three years in South Korea he studied theology at the Catholic University of Louvain from 1967 to 1970. He took his final vows as a Salesian on 6 March 1968 and was ordained a priest on 12 September 1970.^[1]

He worked in South Korea from 1972 to 1984. He then held a series of positions in the leadership of the Salesians: head of missions from 1984 to 1990, youth ministry head from 1990 to 1996, and Vicar General from 1996 to 2003.^[1]

He was appointed Bishop of the Diocese of Ghent by Pope John Paul II on 19 December 2003,^[1] and consecrated bishop by Cardinal Godfried Danneels on 1 February 2004.

Pope Francis accepted his retirement in December 2018, but asked him to remain as bishop until his successor was appointed.^[2] On 27 November 2019, Pope Francis accepted his resignation and named Lode Van Hecke to succeed him.^[3][4]

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External links[]

• Catholic Hierarchy: Lucas Van Looy

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