Jean de Wachtendonck

Joannes Wachtendonck
Bishop of Namur
Province Cambrai
Diocese Namur
Predecessor Engelbert Des Bois
Successor Ignatius Augustinus de Grobbendonck
Other posts Archbishop of Mechelen (briefly in 1668)
Orders
Consecration 13 December 1654
Personal details
Born 1592
Mechelen
Died 25 June 1668
Brussels
Denomination Roman Catholic
Alma mater Leuven University

Jean de Wachtendonck, Latinized Joannes (1592–1668) was the eighth bishop of Namur, in the County of Namur (now in Belgium).

Life

Wachtendonck was born in Mechelen. He studied at Leuven University and graduated Licentiate of Theology in 1616. He became a canon of St Rumbold's Cathedral, an ecclesiastical councillor of the Great Council of Mechelen, vicar general and ecclesiastical councillor of the Brussels Council of State.

In February 1634 he delivered a formal eulogy of Isabella Clara Eugenia (died December 1633) in the cathedral, published as Oratio funebris Isabellae Clarae Eugeniae Hispaniarum infantis.

In 1651 he was named bishop of Namur, but his installation was delayed until 1654 due to suspicions of Jansenism. In Namur he founded a diocesan seminary and held a diocesan synod for the reform of the clergy. He reported favourably to Pope Alexander VII on the cause for the beatification of the Martyrs of Gorcum.

In April 1668 he succeeded Andreas Creusen as archbishop of Mechelen, but died in Brussels on the way to his new see.[1]

Works

His eulogy of the Infanta Isabella was published as:

He was also the author of a life of St Rumbold:

References

  1. "Wachtendonck (Jean de)", Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 27 (Brussels, 1938), 4–6.
Catholic Church titles
Preceded by
Engelbert Des Bois
Bishop of Namur
16541668
Succeeded by
Ignatius Augustinus de Grobbendonck
Preceded by
Andreas Creusen
Archbishop of Mechelen
1668
Succeeded by
Alphonse de Berghes
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