John Wijngaards

Johannes Nicolaas Maria Wijngaards (30 September 1935 – 2 January 2025) was a Dutch Catholic scripture scholar and a former priest.

From 1977 he was prominent in his public opposition to the teaching of the Catholic Church on the impossibility of ordaining women to the priesthood. In 1998 he resigned from his priestly ministry in protest against Pope John Paul II’s decrees ''Ordinatio sacerdotalis'' and ''Ad Tuendam Fidem'', which prohibited further discussion of the women priests’ issue in the Catholic Church. Provided by Wikipedia