Bastiaan Abraham van Kleef

Bastiaan Abraham van Kleef (born April 13, 1889 in Culemborg , † December 24, 1965 in Hilversum ) was a Dutch old Catholic theologian. From 1945 to 1949 he was President of the Old Catholic Seminary in Amersfoort . He was the first married priest in the Old Catholic Church in the Netherlands .

Life

His parents were the building contractor Thomas van Kleef (1863–1953) and his wife Angenita Elisabeth, b. van der Stroom (1867–1954).

From 1903 he studied at the old Catholic seminary in Amersfoort. There he received on March 26, 1916 by Archbishop Gerardus Gul , the ordination . After a brief activity as a chaplain in Haarlem , he continued his studies in Bern in 1917 . Since he intended to get married, he was released from the clergy of his home diocese in Haarlem in 1918 and was incardinated in the German diocese . From 1919 to 1923 he worked as a pastor in Meßkirch and Sauldorf (Baden). After celibacy had also been lifted in the local church in the Netherlands, van Kleef returned to his homeland in 1923 as the first married priest. He worked as a pastor in Zaandam (1923–1924), Amsterdam (1924–1926) and Egmond aan Zee (1926–1938), from 1931 to 1938 he was also pastor in Enkhuizen . In Egmond van Kleef was for some time the mayor and deputy mayor, although he was politically anti-socialist.

After receiving a professorship for New Testament biblical studies and pastoral theology at the Amersfoort seminary in 1938 , he also became president of the seminary in 1945; from that year his teaching assignment also included church history . In addition, he was entrusted with pastoral care for the parish in Culemborg from 1945 to 1953 . After his farewell lecture as a professor in 1949, he was provisional at the seminar until 1957 . Van Kleef was canon from 1939 to 1959, and from 1950 also dean of the cathedral chapter of Utrecht .

For a long time he was editor of De Oud-Katholiek and the International Church Journal . He was the founder of the Old Catholic Trade Union Association (founded on September 5, 1935) and the International Old Catholic Theological Conference .

Van Kleef married Maria Catharina Hendrika born on January 22nd, 1919 in Hilversum. Spit (1893-1953). The marriage resulted in three children: Angenita Elizabeth (* 1920), Gerhardus (Gerardus) Anselmus (1922–1995), who later became Bishop of Haarlem, and Maria (* 1927).

Honors

Van Kleef received various awards, such as the 1940-1945 Memorial Cross of the Red Cross in 1950 . In 1959 he became an Honorary Canon of the Utrecht Cathedral Chapter. The University of Bern awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1959. In Egmond aan Zee a street is named after him, the Pastoor van Kleefstraat .

Works (selection)

• Prison divorcee services van het Oud-Katholieke godsdienstonderwijs. OO [1935].
• Geschiedenis van de Oud-Katholieke Kerk van Nederland. First edition. Rotterdam 1937.
• Om het beginsel. Velsen 1938.
• Leerboekje van de geschiedenis der Oud-Katholieke kerk. Cor Unum et anima una. Amsterdam 1952.
• Geschiedenis van de Oud-Katholieke Kerk van Nederland. Tweede herziene en uitgebreide druk. Van Gorcum, Assen 1953.
• Twaalfhonderd jaar Kromstaf; naar aanleiding van 100 jaar kromstaf in de Rooms-kathieke kerk. Oud-Katholieke Pers, Rotterdam 1953.
• Ed. By: Schuilnamen, naamvormen en naamletters aangenomen door schrivers meest voorkomende in the divorce of the Gallikaanse en Hollandse Kerk, made by JA van Beek. De Oud-Katholieke Pers, 1955.
• De Kartuizers in Holland. De Oud-Katholieke Pers, Utrecht 1956.
• The Utrecht Provincial Council of 1763. Stämpfli, Bern 1960.

Web links

• Andreas Rinkel : Kleef, Bastiaan Abraham van (1889-1965). In: Biographical Woordenboek van Nederland. Huygens Instituut voor Nederlandse Geschiedenis, November 12, 2013, accessed on March 20, 2017 (Dutch). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Urs Küry : The Old Catholic Church. Their history, their teaching, their concerns (= The Churches of the World, Volume 3). 3rd edition 1982, ISBN 3-7715-0190-3 , p. 520