Jan Van Cauwelaert
Jan Van Cauwelaert CICM (born April 12, 1914 in Antwerp , Belgium , † August 18, 2016 in Jette ) was a Belgian clergyman and Roman Catholic bishop of the Inongo diocese in the Congo .
Life
Jan Van Cauwelaert, son of the psychology professor, Lord Mayor of Antwerp and Belgian Minister of State Frans Van Cauwelaert , joined the religious order of the Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary ( Scheut missionaries ) and was ordained a priest on August 6, 1939 . His Order then sent him to the mission in the Belgian Congo colony .
On January 6, 1954 he was by Pope Pius XII. Appointed Titular Bishop of Metropolis in Asia and Apostolic Vicar of the newly founded Vicariate Inongo , a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Kinshasa in what was then the Belgian Congo . He was ordained bishop by Jozef-Ernest Cardinal Van Roey , Archbishop of Mechelen , on March 25 of the same year; Co- consecrators were Louis Morel CICM, Archbishop of Suiyüan (today Hohhot ) in China, and Paul Constant Schoenmaekers , Auxiliary Bishop in Mechelen.
After elevation of the Apostolic Vicariate to the diocese on November 10, 1959 he was by Pope John XXIII. appointed its bishop. As a representative of Africa he participated in all four sessions of the Second Vatican Council and was a member of the Congregation for the Order of the Sacraments .
With the resignation from office Jan Van Cauwelaert was on June 12, 1967 by Paul VI. appointed titular bishop of Uccula . He was then rector of the religious college of the Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Rome. Among other things, he was Vice President of Pax Christi . Due to the changed allocation guidelines, he renounced his titular seat on October 12, 1976.
Since the death of the Slovak bishop Ján Chryzostom Korec on October 24, 2015, Van Cauwelaert has been the longest-serving Roman Catholic bishop in the world by ordination date.
Fonts
- Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya , Basile Mpoto: Mgr Jan Van Cauwelaert. Pasteur et visionnaire. , Edité par CEPESS (Center d'études politiques, économiques et sociales), Brussels 1999
Web links
- Entry on Jan van Cauwelaert on catholic-hierarchy.org ; Retrieved December 13, 2012.
- Jean-Baptiste Malenge Kalunzu: Un livre de monseigneur Monsengwo sur monseigneur Jan Van Cauwelaert . congonline.com, April 2, 2004 (French)
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| - |
Bishop of Inongo 1954–1967 |
Léon Lesambo Ndamwize |
Individual evidence
- ↑ stuff Antwerpse bisschop Jan Van Cauwelaert (102) . Belga obituary in the Gazet van Antwerpen , August 18, 2016 (Flemish).
- ↑ Entry on seniority of the bishops after ordination date on catholic-hierarchy.org ; accessed on August 5, 2016.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Van Cauwelaert, Jan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cauwelaert, Jan van CICM; Cauwelaert, Jan van |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian religious, Roman Catholic bishop of Inongo in the Congo |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 12, 1914 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Antwerp , Belgium |
| DATE OF DEATH | 18th August 2016 |
| Place of death | Jette |