The Teaching and Research Chair devoted to the pastoral care for the deaf was founded on an agreement between the International Catholic Foundation for the Service of Deaf People and the Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven), on the 21st of February of 2001.
ICF and KU Leuven agreed in 2001 that the Faculty of Theology will ensure that the necessary provision is made in its teaching curriculum for items related to the pastoral care of the deaf. At the Master's and licentiate levels in the programmes of Religious Studies an optional course in the pastoral care of the deaf will be offered. The titular of the chair will also be engaged in research in the area of the pastoral care of the deaf.
The present holder of the Chair is Prof.Marcel Broesterhuizen. He belongs to the Department of Pastoral Theology within the Faculty of Theology. As a member of the Department of Pastoral Theology he belongs also to the Centre for Practical Theology.
After every Academic Year the activities of the past year are reported to the Faculty of Theology and to the International Catholic Foundation for the Service of Deaf People.
