Marinus Kok

Marinus Kok
Old Catholic Archbishop of Utrecht
Church	Old Catholic Church
Archdiocese	Utrecht
In office	1970-1982
Predecessor	Franciscus Kenninck
Successor	Antonius Jan Glazemaker
Personal details
Born	(1916-02-08)8 February 1916 Leiden, Netherlands
Died	31 July 1999(1999-07-31) (aged 83) Zeist, Netherlands

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 in Amersfoort, Netherlands, he was ordained to the diaconate and priesthood in 1941. Kok served as a parish priest in Arnhem, Amersfoort and The Hague, while he served on the faculty of the Old Catholic Seminary in Amersfoort. He became a member of the Chapter of Utrecht in 1967, and rector of the seminary in Amersfoort in 1968. Kok was chosen in 1969 as coadjutor to Andreas Rinkel, the Archbishop of Utrecht. After Rinkel retired on November 8, 1970, he consecrated Kok on November 9, 1970. Kok retired as Archbishop of Utrecht on December 31, 1981.

Kok was married to Topy Smits (1914-2009). On July 31, 1999, he died at a hospital in Zeist at the age of 83.

Sources

Moss, C.B. (1948). The Old Catholic Movement: Its Origins and History. Berkeley, CA: The Apocryphal Press. ISBN 9780976402596.