Cornelius Johannes Barchman Wuytiers

Cornelius Johannes Barchman Wuytiers (* 1692 in Utrecht ; † 13 May 1733 ibid) was the second old Catholic archbishop of Utrecht .

Career

Cornelis Johannes Barchman Wuytiers was born to Jean Baptist Barchmann Wuytiers and Isabella Lucretia Voet. His father was a Roman Catholic and his mother was a Reformed mother. Cornelis was raised in the Catholic faith, he received his schooling in Mechelen , among other places , where the Oratorians ran a school. After he had obtained the degree of a Magister Artium in 1717 , he went to Paris for further studies. In the diocese of Senez in the south of France , Wuytiers received tonsure, subdiaconate and diaconate ordination in March 1719 and priestly ordination on April 8, 1719, together with some other candidates for the priesthood of the Church of Utrecht. For several years he served as a chaplain in Leiden . On April 19, 1725, he passed the licentiatus utriusque iuris exam in Leuven with summa cum laude . In the same year he was appointed canon and vicar general to the Utrecht Metropolitan Chapter.

Archbishop of Utrecht

After the death of Cornelius Steenoven in April 1725, the Utrecht Cathedral Chapter elected Cornelis Barchman Wuytiers as Archbishop, exercising his right to vote, which has been documented since 1145. The episcopal ordination took place on September 30, 1725 , with the Catholic Bishop Dominique Varlet serving as consecrator . Except for the omission of the papal oath of allegiance, the rite was carried out strictly according to the Roman pontifical. Pope Benedict XIII who had been shown the election with a request for confirmation, had refused to approve. On December 6, 1725, he excommunicated the new archbishop and lodged a violent protest against the installation.

Under the episcopate of Wuytiers, the boys' seminary , which had existed in Amersfoort since 1722, was added to a seminar for the theological training of Utrecht theologians from 1725. The seminar building was completed in 1726. Another area of ​​activity was the maintenance of the parishes. Every new appointment to a vacant pastorate led to major disputes between the archdiocese and the Roman authorities, with the Dutch state striving to maintain the status quo of the division of territory. Barchman Wuytiers and the Metropolitan Chapter were able to keep the number of parishes that were entrusted to them for pastoral care stable.

In the course of his first year in office, he visited 22 places and 36 parishes and donated the sacrament of Confirmation to 2,700 people . Confirmation was given according to the Roman ritual, but in such a way that the archbishop explained the Latin prayers in Dutch . Further pastoral trips followed. Archbishop Cornelis Barchman Wuytiers supported the translation of the Bible into Dutch, which had already started at the beginning of the 18th century and was financially supported by the Utrecht Cathedral Chapter. The translation was published in full in 1732.

Cornelius Johannes Barchman Wuytiers died on May 13, 1733, and on May 20, 1733 his body was transferred to Warmond near Leyden. The archbishop rests there in the church's crypt next to his predecessors Petrus Codde and Cornelis Steenoven .

Appreciation

The seminary building, erected under his episcopate in 1726, housed the seminary during the tenure of the next eleven archbishops, i.e. for over 240 years. The building is still in use today by the Archdiocese of Utrecht; the seminary was relocated to Utrecht in the early 1970s. All parishes in the ecclesiastical province of Utrecht that had declared themselves loyal to the cathedral chapter in the ecclesiastical dispute of 1723 remained under his episcopate of the church of Utrecht. A consolidation of the situation could therefore occur during his tenure. He was celebrated for his theological knowledge and his spiritual zeal. In Amsterdam he is said to have performed some miracles.

literature

• Van der Aa: Biographical Woordenboek der Nederlanden. 1852.
• John Mason Neale : A History of the So-Called Jansenist Church of Holland. John Henry and James Parker, Oxford 1858.
• Roelof Bennink Janssonius : Divorce of the Oud-Roomschkatholieke Kerk in Nederland: Bydrage tot de kennis van den tegenwoordigen strijd in de Roomschkatholieke Kerk. MJ Visser, 's Gravenhaage 1870.
• Petrus Johann Maan : The episcopate of Cornelis Johannes Barchman Wuytiers. Archbishop of Utrecht 1725–1733. Inaugural dissertation to obtain a theological doctorate submitted to the Christian Catholic theological faculty of the University of Bern. Van Gorcum & Comp. NV, Assen (Netherlands), 1949.
• Serge A. Thériault: Dominique-Marie Varlet. Lettres Du Canada Et De La Louisiane 1713-1724. Québec 1985, ISBN 2-7605-0378-X .
• Old Catholic Church of the Netherlands, Utrecht Archives (Ed.): Gallicanism and ultramontanism in Catholic Europe in the 18th century. Foreign correspondence and other documents from the archive of the Jansenist archbishops of Utrecht, 1723-1808 on microfiche. Utrecht / Amsterdam 2003, OCLC 53372368 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Cornelius Johannes Barchman Wuytiers in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Petrus Johann Maan: The episcopate of Cornelis Johannes Barchman Wuytiers. Archbishop of Utrecht 1725-1733 . Van Gorgcum & Comp. NV, Assen (NL) 1949, p. 19-25 .
2. ↑ Petrus Johann Maan: The episcopate of Cornelis Johannes Barchman Wuytiers. Archbishop of Utrecht 1725-1733 . Van Gorgcum & Comp. NV, Assen (NL) 1949, p. 29 .
3. ↑ Petrus Johann Maan: The episcopate of Cornelis Johannes Barchman Wuytiers. Archbishop of Utrecht 1725-1733 . Van Gorgcum & Comp. NV, Assen (NL) 1949, p. 35 .
4. ↑ ^{a b} Petrus Johann Maan: The episcopate of Cornelis Johannes Barchman Wuytiers. Archbishop of Utrecht 1725-1733 . Van Gorgcum & Comp. NV, Assen (NL) 1949, p. 42-48 .
5. ↑ Petrus Johann Maan: The episcopate of Cornelis Johannes Barchman Wuytiers. Archbishop of Utrecht 1725-1733 . Van Gorgcum & Comp. NV, Assen (NL) 1949, p. 80 .

predecessor	Office	successor
Cornelius Steenoven	Old Catholic Archbishop of Utrecht 1725–1733	Theodorus van der Croon