Adolphe Gesché dating history

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Born in Brussels to Catholic parents who were open to ideas of plurality, Gésché went to school at the Collège Saint-Pièrre in Uccle. At 18, he enrolled at Saint-Louis University in Brussels where he obtained a degree in Philosophy and Arts two years later. In 1949, after having completed his military service, he decided to take holy orders. He studied for a bachelor's degree in Classical Philology at the Catholic University of Louvain which, from 1951 onwards, became intermingled with his studies in Theology at the Seminary of Malines. Ordained priest in 1955, he continued his studies in Theology at Louvain and finally earned a doctorate and was conferred the title of "maître-agrégé" in Theology (1962). He then took up a career in teaching, first at the Seminary of Malines (1962-1969), and then at the Catholic University of Louvain where he was elected a full professor in 1969. He was the founding member of the managing committee of the Revue théologique de Louvain (1970).