Jean Hengen
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Jean Hengen was a Luxembourg
Luxembourg
Luxembourg , officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg , is a landlocked country in western Europe, bordered by Belgium, France, and Germany. It has two principal regions: the Oesling in the North as part of the Ardennes massif, and the Gutland in the south...

ian Roman Catholic
Roman Catholic Church
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 priest. He served as the ordinary
Ordinary
In those hierarchically organised churches of Western Christianity which have an ecclesiastical law system, an ordinary is an officer of the church who by reason of office has ordinary power to execute the church's laws...

 of the Roman Catholic Church in Luxembourg from 13 February 1971 until 21 December 1990. He was the Bishop of Luxembourg, from 1971 until 1988, whereupon Luxembourg was created an Archbishopric, and thereafter he served as Archbishop of Luxembourg.

Hengen was inducted into the Order of the Oak Crown
Order of the Oak Crown
The Order of the Oak Crown is an Order of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.-History:The Order of the Oak Crown was instituted by the Grand Duke-King William II, in 1841...

 as a Grand Officer on 23 June 1981.
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