Honoré-Jozef Coppieters

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Honoré-Jozef Coppieters

Honoré-Jozef Coppieters ( French Honoré-Joseph Coppieters ; born March 30, 1874 in Overmere , East Flanders , Belgium , † December 20, 1947 in Ghent ) was a Belgian Roman Catholic clergyman and bishop of Ghent .

Life

Honoré-Jozef Coppieters was born in 1874 in the Flemish village of Overmere, the eldest son of a farming family. After attending a seminary in Ghent, he was ordained a priest on December 19, 1896 and then studied at the Catholic University of Leuven . In 1902 he obtained a doctorate in theology. From 1900 to 1920 he taught Biblical Exegesis and Hebrew at the Theological Faculty of the University of Leuven. In 1919 he was appointed dean of Lokeren and in 1924 dean of Aalst .

On January 28, 1927 he was appointed auxiliary bishop of Ghent and at the same time was titular bishop of Helenopolis in Bithynia . On May 15, 1927 Archbishop he donated Jozef-Ernest van Roey , the episcopal ordination ; Co- consecrators were Gastone Antonio Rasneur , Bishop of Tournai (Doornik) , and Eugène Victor Marie Van Rechem , Auxiliary Bishop in Ghent. Two days later he officially took office as bishop. His motto was Fide et Caritate ("By faith and love").

In the run-up to the World Exhibition in Brussels in 1935 , he purchased an organ from the Johannes Klais Orgelbau company in Bonn to complement the existing organ in Ghent Cathedral .

During his tenure, on the night of April 10th to 11th, 1934, two altar panels with paintings by Hubert and Jan van Eyck were stolen from Ghent Cathedral. On April 30, 1934, Coppieters personally received a ransom note from the art thieves with a claim for payment of one million Belgian francs. In the end, only 25,000 francs ransom was paid, after which one of the altar panels was returned. A copy of the second altar panel with the Just Judges is exhibited to this day.

Bishop Coppieters died on December 20, 1947. On March 24, 1959, after seven years of negotiations with Auxiliary Bishop Leo de Kesel , his remains were transferred to the crypt of Ghent Cathedral.

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  1. ↑ Noah Charney: Stealing the Mystic Lamb: The True Story of the World's Most Coveted Masterpiece in the Google book search
predecessor Office successor
Emiel-Jan Seghers Bishop of Ghent
1927–1947 		Karel-Justinus Calewaert
personal data
SURNAME Coppieters, Honoré-Jozef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Coppieters, Honoré-Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian Roman Catholic clergyman and bishop
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Overmere , East Flanders , Belgium
DATE OF DEATH December 20, 1947
Place of death Ghent