Hilligje Kok-Bisschop

Hilligje Kok-Bisschop (born 1948) is a Dutch activist from Staphorst for emancipation of orthodox Christian women.

On 26 April 2013, she received the Order of Orange-Nassau for her work in advocating the rights of women in the Dutch orthodox Christian community.

She had previously been shunned from her local church for lobbying in The Hague for female representation in the Christian SGP political party.

She received the award thanks to a documentary made about her by the Dutch filmmaker Emile van Rouveroy van Nieuwaal, who himself was awarded the same order on 24 April 2015, mostly for his documentaries based on her work.

[2] Her favorite holy text is Psalm 3, verse 3: I lay down and slept; I woke again, for the Lord sustained me.