Jack de Valk

Jacobus Petrus Maria "Jack" de Valk (7 August 1932 – 25 January 2025) was a Dutch priest of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Utrecht. He became known as broadcasting pastor of  during the 1970s.

Biography
De Valk was born in Rotterdam on 7 August 1932. He grew up in Amersfoort. He studied architecture at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Utrecht. Afterwards he did a Seminary education. He became chaplain in Zevenaar and after five years a pastor at the  in Baarn. After foundation of the  by the KRO in 1974, it was added to the pastoral team of the  in Amersfoort. De Valk became a member of it together with Jan ter Laak. As a broadcasting pastor he gained national fame due to the national radio and television programs. Due to the success also  joined the team. De Valk also continued to work partly at local parish in Amersfoort. At the end of 1979 he went to work in hospital chaplaincy at the University Medical Center Utrecht in the Psychiatry department, where he worked  until his retirement in August 1997. After his retirement, Jack still worked for a number of years at the .

De Valk died on 25 January 2025, at the age of 92.

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Category:Dutch people
Category:1932 births
Category:2025 deaths
Category:People from Rotterdam
Category:Place of death missing