Maximilien de Furstenberg
Maximilien Kardinal de Fürstenberg , also Maximilian Cardinal von Fürstenberg , (born October 23, 1904 at Kasteel Terworm (Ter Worm Castle) near Heerlen , Netherlands ; † September 22, 1988 in Mont-Godinne (Yvoir) , Namur Province , Belgium ) was a Belgian clergyman , diplomat of the Holy See and Cardinal Curia of the Roman Catholic Church . He was Cardinal Grand Master of the Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem .
family
Maximilian Louis Hubert Egon Vincent Marie Joseph Freiherr (Baron) von Fürstenberg-Stammheim, from the old, Catholic Westphalian noble family of the Barons von Fürstenberg- Stammheim, became the third child of Adolphe-Louis-Egon Freiherr von Fürstenberg-Stammheim (1870–1950 ) and his wife Elisabeth, b. Countess d'Oultremont de Wégimont et de Warfusée (1879–1953) born. His mother came from the noble family Oultremont, one of the ten oldest families of the Belgian nobility.
His brother was Charles-Egon (1902-1958) (married to the Baroness Madeleine Villers de Waroux d'Awans de Bouilhet et de Bovenistier) and his sister Marie-Louise (1900-1980) (married to Jean du Roy de Blicquy).
He called himself Maximilien de Fürstenberg .
Life
He spent his youth at Obsinnich Castle (today Castel Notre Dame) in Remersdaal , in the Château-ferme de Tavier and Brussels. After attending the grammar school of the Benedictine Abbey of Maredsous in Namur from 1915 to 1922, he went on a study trip through Latin America and from 1922 to 1928 studied classical philology and philosophy at the Facultés Universitaires Saint-Louis in Brussels . He was a soldier in a grenadier regiment, most recently with the rank of lieutenant in the reserve. In 1925 he enrolled at the Institute of Philosophy at the Catholic University of Leuven , in 1928 he moved to the Pontifical Gregorian University on a scholarship from the Pontifical Belgian College in Rome , where he received his doctorate in theology in 1932 . On August 9, 1931 he was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Mechelen .
From 1932 to 1934 he worked at the Saint-Jean Berchmans-Dözesankolleg in Antwerp . From 1934 to 1946 he was professor of liturgy at the large seminary in Mechelen . Cardinal Jozef-Ernest Van Roey also appointed him his ceremonial and canon in Mechelen in 1934 . From 1935 to 1949 he was military chaplain of the reserve. On Christmas Day 1943 he was summoned to his mother's house under a pretext and arrested; he was sentenced to two years in Saint-Gilles, Brussels. He was released on Christmas Day 1944.
After the end of the Second World War he was awarded the Order of Leopold II and appointed chaplain of the Supreme Court in Belgium. In 1946 Maximilien de Fürstenberg was elected Rector of the Belgian College in Rome by the Belgian bishops. Karol Józef Wojtyła, who later became Pope John Paul II, Pope Pius XII, also lived in the college at that time . appointed him on May 13, 1947 to the papal house prelate .
Bishop and diplomat
After his appointment as titular archbishop of Paltus on March 8, 1949 by Pope Pius XII. he was appointed Apostolic Delegate in Japan on March 22, 1949 . The Archbishop of Mechlin , Jozef-Ernest Cardinal Van Roey, donated him the episcopal ordination on April 25, 1949 in St. Rumbolds Cathedral ; Co-consecrators were the auxiliary bishops Jean Marie Van Cauwenbergh from Mechelen and Oscar Joliet from Ghent . In the meantime Internuntius in Japan, he was also regent of the nunciature in Korea from 1952 to 1953 . On November 21, 1959, Pope John XXIII appointed him . as Apostolic Delegate in Australia , New Zealand and Oceania and on April 28, 1962 as Apostolic Nuncio in Portugal .
He was the council father of the first, third and fourth sessions of the Second Vatican Council .
cardinal
On June 26, 1967, Pope Paul VI appointed de Fürstenberg as cardinal priest with the title diaconia Sacro Cuore di Gesù a Castro Pretorio, raised pro illa vice to the title church .
On January 15, 1968 de Fürstenberg was appointed cardinal prefect of the Congregation for the Eastern Churches . On the fiftieth anniversary of the Congregation, he visited India , Iraq , Syria , Jordan , Egypt , Turkey and the Holy Land, as well as the Patriarch of the Eastern Catholic Churches and the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Athinagoras I. He was the Pope's special envoy for the celebrations of the tenth anniversary of the Archepary Philadelphia the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church based in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania in 1969 and special envoy in 1971 for the 2500th anniversary of the Iranian monarchy . 1972 was him by Pope Paul VI. transferred the office of Cardinal Grand Master of the Order of Knights from the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem .
On February 28, 1973 Paul VI exempted him. from the post of Cardinal Prefect of the Congregation for the Eastern Churches and appointed him President of the Central Commission for the Holy Year 1975 . He was also a member of the following congregations and bodies: Commission for the State of the Vatican City and the Institute of Opere di Religione (Vatican Bank), Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Commission for the Revision of the Codex of Canon Law, Commission for the Editing of the Codex des Oriental Law, Congregation for the Interpretation of the Decrees of the Second Vatican Council, Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, Council for the Public Affairs of the Church, Congregation for Bishops, Secretariat for Christian Unity, Supremum Tribunal, Congregation for Religious and Secular Institutes, Congregation for the Canonizations, etc. a. m. In 1980 he resigned most of these offices for reasons of age. In 1974 he served as papal legate at the 1200th anniversary of Salzburg Cathedral , in 1975 in Okinawa , Japan, and in 1982 at the opening of the international pilgrims' house and the inauguration of the Pax-Christi chapel in Kevelaer .
As cardinal, de Fürstenberg took part in two conclaves, in August 1978 (election of Pope John Paul I ) and in October 1978 (election of Pope John Paul II ). He was the Camerlengo of the Holy College of Cardinals from May 24, 1982 to June 25, 1984.
death
De Fürstenberg fell ill and was visited by Pope John Paul II in the Gemelli Clinic in Rome on May 30, 1988 shortly before being transferred to the Mont-Godinne University Hospital of the Catholic University of Leuven . He died of a cerebral haemorrhage in Mont-Godinne on September 22, 1988. The funeral mass was held on Wednesday, September 28, 1988, in the Notre-Dame du Sablon in Brussels, the church belonging to the Belgian Lieutenancy of the Order of the Holy Sepulcher Jerusalem. The following day he was buried in the Franciscan church on the Apollinarisberg in Remagen . 15 other members of the von Fürstenberg family are buried in the family crypt next to the church, which his great-grandfather Franz Egon von Fürstenberg-Stammheim had laid out.
honors and awards
- Order of Leopold II (Belgium, 1946) for his service to the fatherland
- Appointment as papal house prelate by Pope Pius XII. (1947)
- Grand Cross of the Order of Christ (Portugal, 1966)
- Grand Cross of the Order of Infante Dom Henrique (Portugal, 1967)
- Grand Cross of the Order of Merit Pro Merito Melitensi of the Order of Malta (1967)
Web links
- Furstenberg, Maximilien de. In: Salvador Miranda : The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. ( Florida International University website), accessed August 5, 2016.
- Entry on Maximilien de Fürstenberg on catholic-hierarchy.org ; accessed on August 5, 2016.
- Entry about Maximilien de Fürstenberg in the Munzinger archive
- Biography Cardinal de Furstenberg (French)
- Part of the estate of Cardinal Maximilian von Fürstenberg (1904-1988) in the Federal Archives
Individual evidence
- ↑ Obsinnich Castle (Remersdaal) , accessed on August 16, 2014
- ↑ La famille de Furstenberg sur 10 générations (French), accessed on August 16, 2014
- ↑ Le Cardinal de Furstenberg (French), accessed on August 16, 2014
- ↑ a b c d e Cardinal Maximilien de Fürstenberg in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved November 19, 2019.
- ↑ a b c Part of the estate of Cardinal Maximilian von Fürstenberg (1904–1988) , Archives NRW, accessed on November 27, 2011
- ↑ a b Last resting place of the Counts of Fürstenberg-Stammheim ( Memento of the original from August 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed August 16, 2014
- ↑ a b ENTIDADES ESTRANGEIRAS AGRACIADAS COM ORDENS PORTUGUESAS - Página Oficial the Order of Honoríficas Portuguesas. Retrieved August 12, 2019 .
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Paolo Marella |
Apostolic Delegate / Nuncio in Japan 1949–1959 |
Domenico Enrici |
| Romolo Carboni |
Apostolic Delegate to Australia , New Zealand and Oceania 1959–1962 |
Domenico Enrici |
| Giovanni Panico |
Apostolic Nuncio in Portugal 1962–1967 |
Giuseppe Maria Sensi |
| Gustavo Cardinal Testa |
Prefect of the Congregation for the Eastern Churches 1968–1973 |
Paul-Pierre Cardinal Philippe OP |
| Cardinal Eugène Tisserant |
 Cardinal Grand Master of the Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem 1972–1988 |
Giuseppe Cardinal Caprio |
| Egidio Cardinal Vagnozzi |
Chamberlain of the Holy College of Cardinals 1982–1984 |
Silvio Cardinal Oddi |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fürstenberg, Maximilien de |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fürstenberg, Maximilien Cardinal de; Fürstenberg, Maximilian Cardinal von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian-Dutch diplomat and cardinal to the Vatican |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 23, 1904 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kasteel Terworm (Ter Worm Castle) near Heerlen , Netherlands |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 22, 1988 |
| Place of death | Mont-Godinne (Yvoir) , Namur Province, Belgium |