Philippe Bär

Ronald Philippe Bär, (born July 29, 1928)[1] is a retired Dutch Roman Catholic bishop. He was born in Manado, North Sulawesi, then Dutch East Indies. He was bishop of the Diocese of Rotterdam from October 19, 1983, to March 13, 1993, as well as bishop of the Dutch military ordinariate.[1] He resigned unexpectedly because of rumours of homosexual contacts.[2]

Philippe Bär (1982)

Roman Catholic sex abuse case

In 2011, Bär's name was mentioned in connection with a sex abuse case involving a Roman Catholic priest, who reportedly abused dozens of children in the period from 1987 to 2008: "The cardinal (Cardinal Simonis) was told by the then bishop of Rotterdam, Philippe Bär, that the priest had sexually abused underage boys in his parish in Zoetermeer. Bishop Bär wanted the priest out of his diocese. Archbishop Simonis then arranged for the man to be moved to a parish in Amersfoort."[3][4]

See also

References
  1. "Bishop Ronald Philippe Bär, O.S.B." Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
  2. Henk Mulder. "De sex en de machinaties in het Rolduc van Gijsen" (in Dutch). De Volkskrant, August 31, 1999.
  3. "Dutch Cardinal protected paedophile priest". RNW Media. Archived from the original on 17 February 2017.
  4. "Cardinal Ad Simonis accused of protecting abuser priest". BBC News. 11 February 2011.


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