Johannes Jacobus van Rhijn

Johannes Jacobus van Rhijn (born June 24, 1742 in The Hague , † June 24, 1808 in Utrecht ) was the sixth Old Catholic Archbishop of Utrecht .

Live and act

Van Rhijn came from a family that had remained loyal to the Utrecht Church through adversity. He entered the seminary in Amersfoort in 1755 . He was ordained a priest on September 28, 1766 . After holding the parish offices in Rotterdam (HH Petrus and Paulus, from 1772 HH Laurentius and Maria Magdalena) and in Utrecht (St. Nicholas, the last old Catholic clergyman in this parish), he became Archbishop of May 10, 1797 Utrecht was elected and consecrated on July 5, 1797 by Adrian Johannes Broekman , the Bishop of Haarlem and Nicolas Nellemans , the Bishop of Deventer , which was hisExcommunication by Pope Pius VI. on August 26, 1797.

During his tenure, the Batavian Republic collapsed and Louis Bonaparte was appointed King of Holland .

He died showing signs of poisoning.

literature

• John Mason Neale : A History of the So-Called Jansenist Church of Holland. John Henry and James Parker, Oxford 1858.
• 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.
• 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 , p. 781f.

predecessor	Office	successor
Gualtherus Michael van Nieuwenhuizen	Old Catholic Archbishop of Utrecht 1797–1808	Willibrord van Os