Patrick Hoogmartens

Patrick Hoogmartens (born 1952) is a Belgian prelate of the Catholic Church who has served as the third bishop of the Diocese of Hasselt since 2004.

[1] He studied at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, graduating licentiate in Law (1977) and Philosophy (1978).

He was ordained to the priesthood on 4 July 1982 in the Basilica of Our Lady, Tongeren,[2] and undertook further studies at the Alphonsian Academy, graduating Licentiate of Sacred Theology.

[2] On 8 July 1997 Pope John Paul II appointed him coadjutor bishop of Hasselt.

[5] In 2016 he gave permission for the reliquary of St Odilia at Mariënlof Abbey [nl] in Borgloon to be unsealed for academic research.