Willibrord van Os

Willibrord van Os (born February 2, 1744 in Hilversum , † February 28, 1825 in Amersfoort ) was the seventh Old Catholic Archbishop of Utrecht .

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Born as one of three children of Henricus Gijsbertus van Os and his wife Catharina, van Os was ordained a priest on January 25, 1768 . He worked in The Hague , Rotterdam and Amersfoort before becoming Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Utrecht in 1808 .

After the assassination of Archbishop Johannes Jacobus van Rhijn on June 24, 1808, the Utrecht Metropolitan Chapter met to determine a successor. Louis Bonaparte , then King of Holland , had this election banned, and the seat of Utrecht remained vacant until the Kingdom of the Netherlands was re-established in 1813 .

On February 10, 1814 Chapter van Os chose the Archbishop , and on Easter Sunday, April 24, 1814 gave him the bishop of Deventer , Gisbert de Jong , as the last surviving bishop of the Church of Utrecht, the episcopal ordination . Van Os, who was already in his seventies when he was elected, restored the number of three bishops in 1819 with the ordination of Johannes Bon as Bishop of Haarlem .

The renewed attempt at a compromise with Rome in November 1823 failed again because the Roman Curia insisted on recognition of the bull Unigenitus Dei filius and the "form" of Pope Alexander VII . A self-formulated declaration by the three bishops, which listed and rejected all the points condemned by Rome, was rejected as inadequate by the papal nuncio Nazalli.

literature

• John Mason Neale : A History of the So-Called Jansenist Church of Holland. John Henry and James Parker, Oxford 1858, pp. 345-356.
• 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. 778f.

predecessor	Office	successor
Johannes Jacobus van Rhijn	Old Catholic Archbishop of Utrecht 1814–1825	Johannes van Santen