Cornelius Steenoven

Cornelis Steenoven, death portrait

Cornelis (Cornelius) Steenoven (baptized October 13, 1661 in Amsterdam ; † April 3, 1725 in Leiden ) was a Dutch Roman Catholic clergyman, later the first Old Catholic Archbishop of Utrecht . He is also listed as Cornelis Steenoven , Cornelius Steenhoven or Cornelius van Steenoven .

Steenoven studied in Leuven and Rome and was ordained priest in 1689 . He worked as a pastor from 1693 to 1719 in Amersfoort , where he had an old orphanage converted into a church. He then worked in Leiden from 1719 to 1723. From 1700 he was canon of the Utrecht cathedral chapter . Since the dismissal of Petrus Codde as Apostolic Vicar, this had been in conflict with the Curia in Rome, where they did not want to appoint a new bishop. On April 27, 1723, the chapter elected Steenoven, who had been vicar of the cathedral chapter since 1719, as archbishop. Although the election of Rome was not recognized, Steenoven received on October 14, 1724 in Amsterdam the episcopal ordination by the French missionary bishop Dominique Marie Varlet . Pope Benedict XIII thereupon imposed the ban on Steenoven, with which the Utrecht Schism and subsequently the " Roman Catholic Church of the Old Episcopal Clergy " (later called "Old Catholic Church of the Netherlands") arose.

Steenoven died six months after his episcopal ordination in Leiden and was buried in the Old Catholic Church of Warmond .

literature

• 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.
• 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.

Remarks

1. ↑ According to another source on October 15, 1724, according to Bastiaan Abraham van Kleef : The Utrecht Provincial Council of 1763 (= special print from "International Church Journal"). Stämpfli & Cie., Bern 1960, p. 1.

predecessor	Office	successor
---	Old Catholic Archbishop of Utrecht 1723–1725	Cornelius Johannes Barchman Wuytiers