Basil Hume

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Statue of Basil Hume in front of Newcastle Catholic Cathedral , unveiled by Queen Elizabeth II in 2002
Hume's cardinal coat of arms

Basil Cardinal Hume OSB (born March 2, 1923 in Newcastle upon Tyne , Tyne and Wear , United Kingdom , † June 17, 1999 in London ), actually George Haliburton Hume , was a monk of Ampleforth Abbey and Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster and of 1979 to 1999 chairman of the Bishops' Conference of England and Wales .

Life

Basil Hume was born George Haliburton Hume in 1923 to a Scottish doctor and a French Catholic mother. He had three sisters and a brother. At the age of 16 he first considered joining the Dominicans , but eventually became a novice to the Benedictines of Ampleforth Abbey in Yorkshire in September 1941 ; there he received the religious name " Basil ".

Hume, who had been a student at the Abbey's Ampleforth College , a public school in England, from 1933/34 , studied after his novitiate at St. Benet's Hall in Oxford and the University of Friborg (Switzerland) . In 1945 he made perpetual profession at Ampleforth Abbey and was ordained a priest on July 23, 1950 . Returned to Ampleforth after completing his studies, Father Basil Hume taught modern foreign languages ​​there. In 1963 he was elected abbot of his monastery, which he did until his elevation to Archbishop of Westminster (1976) by Pope Paul VI. stayed. This election surprised many because he was not a good candidate for the office because of the lack of practice in running a diocese and therefore he was seen as an outsider. He was ordained bishop on March 25, 1976 in Westminster Cathedral Archbishop Bruno Bernhard Heim , Apostolic Delegate in Great Britain; Co-consecrators were Basil Christopher Butler . Auxiliary Bishop in the Archdiocese of Westminster; and John Gerard McClean , Bishop of Middlesbrough

On May 24, 1976 Paul VI took him. as a cardinal priest with the titular church of San Silvestro in Capite in the college of cardinals . Since then he has been a member of several Roman dicasteries in the Vatican . Cardinal Hume was also President of the Council of European Bishops' Conferences from 1978 to 1987 .

During the conclave in which Pope John Paul II was elected, Hume was a favorite in the opinion of many and was also classified as a bishop with high chances for the papacy in the following period.

In 1999 he was awarded the Order of Merit by Elisabeth II . In the same year, at the age of 76, he died of complications from colon cancer and was buried in Westminster Cathedral .

Fonts

  • Pilgrim Book of Life . Herder Verlag, Freiburg - Basel - Vienna 1984, ISBN 3-451-20180-1 .
  • The mystery of the cross . (= Topos Plus Taschenbücher vol. 373), Lahn-Verlag, Limburg - Kevelaer 2001, ISBN 3-7867-8373-X .

literature

Web links

Commons : Basil Hume  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ northumbria.info
  2. ↑ Anglican Journal: Respected cardinal this (September 1, 1999) ( Memento of 20 November 2008 at the Internet Archive )
predecessor Office successor
John Carmel Cardinal Heenan Archbishop of Westminster
1976–1999 		Cormac Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor
Roger Cardinal Etchegaray President of the Council of European Bishops' Conferences
1979–1986 		Carlo Maria Cardinal Martini SJ
personal data
SURNAME Hume, Basil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hume, George Basil Cardinal OSB; Hume, George Haliburton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British clergyman, cardinal and archbishop of Westminster
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Newcastle upon Tyne
DATE OF DEATH June 17, 1999
Place of death London