André Marie Charue

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André Clément Marie Ghislain Charue (born July 1, 1898 in Jemeppe-sur-Sambre , Namur Province , Belgium , † December 20, 1977 in Namur ) was Roman Catholic Bishop of Namur .

Life

André Marie Charue was ordained a priest on August 15, 1922 .

On December 12, 1941, Pope Pius XII appointed him . the 27th Bishop of Namur . He was ordained bishop by Jozef-Ernest Cardinal Van Roey , Archbishop of Mechelen , on February 11 of the following year, co-consecrators were the Bishop of Liège , Louis-Joseph Kerkhofs , and the Bishop of Ghent , Honoré-Joseph Coppieters .

Charue participated in all four sessions of the Second Vatican Council as a council father and wrote a council diary. From October 1962 he was a member of the Theological Commission, of which he was second vice-president from December 2, 1962. Charue contributed to the preparation of the Dei Verbum , Lumen Gentium and Gaudium et Spes documents .

Pope Paul VI gave his age-related resignation . on June 24, 1974.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andre-Marie Charue: Inventaire des papiers conciliaires de Mgr A.-M. Charue, évêque de Namur, deuxième vice-président de la commission doctrinale: Inventaire des papiers conciliaires de Mgr A.-M. Charue . In: Leo Declerck (Ed.): Instrumenta Theologica . tape 40 . Peeters, Leuven 2017, ISBN 978-90-429-3417-7 .
  2. Leo Declerck: Charue . In: Michael Quisinsky / Peter Walter (eds.): Lexicon of persons for the Second Vatican Council . Herder, Freiburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-451-30330-2 , pp. 76 .
  3. Inventaire des Papiers conciliaires de Mgr A.-M. Charue, Évêque de Namur, 2nd Vice-président de la Commission doctrinale. Retrieved November 30, 2018 .
predecessor Office successor
Thomas Louis Heylen O.Praem Bishop of Namur
1941–1974
Robert-Joseph Mathen