Johannes Heykamp

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Johannes Heykamp around 1889

Johannes Heykamp , according to a different spelling Johannes Heijkamp (born June 18, 1824 in Utrecht ; † January 8, 1892 ibid) was the tenth old Catholic Archbishop of Utrecht .

Life

He studied from 1853 to 1858 at the Old Catholic Seminary in Amersfoort . From 1858 to 1874 he worked as a pastor in Schiedam . During this time the new church there, which was consecrated in 1862, fell.

In 1867 a conflict arose between Archbishop Henricus Loos on the one hand and the Bishop of Deventer , Heykamp's uncle Hermann Heykamp and the President of the Old Catholic Seminary in Amersfoort, Christianus Karsten, on the other. The question was who was responsible for managing the colegiekas , a fund to finance the seminar.

Heykamp was elected Bishop of Haarlem on September 17, 1867, but turned it down on September 30. He also turned down another election as Bishop of Haarlem on December 17, 1867 on January 13, 1868. The reason for this was probably the tensions in the Dutch church at the time, but also fears that Heykamp's consecration by his uncle could be viewed as nepotism .

Only when the Utrecht Chapter elected him on 15 December 1874 as archbishop, he took part in this election and received on 28 April 1875 by the bishops Casparus John Rinkel and Joseph Hubert Reinkens the episcopal ordination .

During Heykamp's episcopate, the Utrecht Church freed itself from its isolation and became the midwife of the Old Catholic Churches in Germany and Switzerland. At the end of these developments there was the Utrecht Declaration of 1889, which he co-signed and which established an international community of the Old Catholic Churches .

literature

  • Dick J. Schoon : Van bisschoppelijke Cleresie dead Oud-Katholieke Kerk. Bijdrage tot de geschiedenis van het katholicisme in Nederland in de 19de eeuw. Valkhof Pers, Nijmegen 2004, ISBN 90-5625-165-1 , pp. 757f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. the chronicle of the community of Schiedam under “Weblinks”.
  2. ^ Franciscus Kenninck : Karsten, Christianus . In: Petrus Johannes Blok , Philipp Christiaan Molhuysen (Ed.): Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek . Part 2. N. Israel, Amsterdam 1974, Sp. 649 (Dutch, knaw.nl - first edition: AW Sijthoff, Leiden 1912, reprint unchanged). .
  3. ↑ cf. Schoon, p. 757.
predecessor Office successor
Henricus Loos Old Catholic Archbishop of Utrecht
1875–1892 		Gerardus Gul
personal data
SURNAME Heykamp, ​​Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heijkamp, ​​Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION old Catholic Archbishop of Utrecht
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1824
PLACE OF BIRTH Utrecht
DATE OF DEATH January 8, 1892
Place of death Utrecht