Thomas Philippe Wallrad d'Hénin-Liétard d'Alsace-Boussu de Chimay

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Thomas d'Hénin-Liétard Cardinal d'Alsace, Archbishop of Mechlin (after 1715)
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Thomas Philippe Wallrad d'Hénin-Liétard d'Alsace-Boussu de Chimay (born November 12, 1679 in Brussels , † January 5, 1759 in Mechelen ) was a Flemish clergyman, Archbishop of Mechelen and Cardinal of the Roman Church .

Life

Childhood and studies

He was born as the second son of Philippe Louis d'Hénin-Liétard d'Alsace, Count of Boussu and Prince of Chimay , and Anne-Louise Verrycken, daughter of the Baron von Impden, in the Flemish noble house of Hénin-Liétard and one day after his Birth, baptized November 13, 1679 .

As a child he was destined for a spiritual career, he received the tonsure on November 29, 1690 at the age of eleven . He received his first lessons from Jesuits . First he studied in Cologne and then went to Rome, where he lived in the Collegio Germanico and attended the Papal Athenaeum of San Apollinare . He then continued his studies at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, where he received his doctorate in philosophy and theology on August 28, 1702; he was the first to publicly defend his theses before a body of clergy and scholars.

Church career

As a youth, the future Cardinal d'Alsace was canon of Ghent , and in 1695 he became provost there . He received the minor ordinations on August 24, 1698, the ordination as subdeacon on June 12, 1701 and on November 2, 1701 he was ordained as a deacon . On October 15, 1702 he was ordained a priest . He was the honorary chaplain of Pope Clement XI. and Vicar General of the Diocese of Ghent in the absence of the bishop. He became papal house prelate on August 20, 1712. In 1713 the Pope wanted to appoint him Bishop of Ypres , but the Emperor proposed him for the Archbishopric of Mechelen.

On 16 December 1715 he was elected archbishop of Mechelen and on January 19, 1716 he donated in the Jesuit church in Vienna , the Pontifical Nuncio in Austria Giorgio Spinola the episcopal ordination ; Co- consecrators were László Erdödy , Bishop of Nitra , and Sigismund von Kollonitz , Bishop of Vác .

In the consistory of November 29, 1719, d'Alsace was created cardinal, whereupon he received the titular church of San Cesareo in Palatio on June 16, 1721 as a cardinal priest . He took part in the conclave in 1721 , when Innocent XIII. when Pope was elected. On December 2, 1733 he received the titular church of Santa Balbina . He participated in the 1740 conclave elected by Pope Benedict XIV and stayed in Rome until May 1741. After he had become cardinal protopresbyter, he received on July 17, 1752 the titular church of San Lorenzo in Lucina , which traditionally belongs to the cardinal protopresbyter.

death

Cardinal d'Alsace died in Mechelen on January 5th, 1759 and was buried in the Mechlin Cathedral , his episcopal church.

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predecessor Office successor
Humbertus Guilielmus de Precipiano Archbishop of Mechlin
1715–1759
Johann Heinrich von Frankenberg
Giulio Alberoni Cardinal Protopriest
1752-1759
Domenico Silvio Passionei