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Johannes Hermannes Jozefus (Hans) van den Hende (Groningen January 9 1964) is a Dutch Roman Catholic clergyman. He has been bishop of the diocese of Breda since October 31 2007.Van den Hende attended the local secondary school in Haren. He studied philosophy and theology at the Catholic University of Utrecht. At the Gregorianum in Rome he obtained a doctorate of Canon Law with a dissertation that focused of the changing role of episcopal conferences since the Second Vatican Council.
