Wim Eijk

His Eminence Willem Jacobus Eijk
Cardinal, Archbishop of Utrecht Primate of the Netherlands
Cardinal Eijk in 2020.
Church	Catholic
Archdiocese	Utrecht
See	Utrecht
Appointed	11 December 2007
Installed	26 January 2008
Predecessor	Adrianus Johannes Simonis
Other post(s)	President of the Bishops' Conference of the Netherlands Cardinal-Priest of San Callisto
Previous post(s)	Bishop of Groningen-Leeuwarden
Orders
Ordination	1 June 1985 by Joannes Baptist Matthijs Gijsen
Consecration	6 November 1999 by Adrianus Johannes Simonis
Created cardinal	18 February 2012 by Benedict XVI
Rank	Cardinal-Priest
Personal details
Born	Willem Jacobus Eijk (1953-06-22) 22 June 1953 (age 71) Duivendrecht, Netherlands
Education	University of Amsterdam Rolduc Leiden University Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas Pontifical Lateran University
Motto	Noli Recusare Laborem (Do Not Reject the Work)
Coat of arms

Styles of Wim Eijk
Reference style	His Eminence
Spoken style	Your Eminence
Informal style	Cardinal

Willem Jacobus "Wim" Eijk (born 22 June 1953) is a Dutch prelate of the Catholic Church, a cardinal since 2012. He has been the Metropolitan Archbishop of Utrecht since 2007. He was Bishop of Groningen-Leeuwarden from 1999 to 2007. Before his clerical career he worked as a doctor; as a priest he made medical ethics the focus of his academic studies.