Willem Marinus van Rossum

Cardinal van Rossum
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Willem van Rossum
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Informal style Cardinal
See Caesarea in Mauretania (titular see)

Willem Marinus van Rossum, C.Ss.R. (September 3, 1854 August 30, 1932) was a Dutch Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Prefect of the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1911.

Life

Willem van Rossum was born in Zwolle, Netherlands, to Jan and Hendrika (née Veldwillems) van Rossum. He entered the Minor Seminary of Culemborg in 1867, and joined the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, more commonly known as the Redemptorists, on June 15, 1873. He made his profession as a Redemptorist on June 16, 1874.

He was ordained a priest in Wittem on October 17, 1879. He then taught Latin and rhetoric in Roermond, and was a professor of dogmatic theology at the Scholasticate of Wittem from 1883 to 1892. He became the Scholasticate's prefect of studies in 1886 and its rector in 1893.

After becoming a member of the Redemptorist community in Rome in 1895, Rossum was named a consultor to the Congregation of the Holy Office on December 25, 1896. He also became a counselor to the Commission for the Codification of Canon Law on April 15, 1904. He served as general consultor of the Redemptorists from 1909 to 1911.

In 1911, Pope Pius X made him Cardinal-Deacon of San Cesareo in Palatio, the first Dutch cardinal since the Protestant Reformation. In 1914, he became president of the Pontifical Biblical Commission. In 1915, he was named head of the Apostolic Penitentiary, one of the three tribunals of the Roman Curia and was also raised to the rank of Cardinal Priest, with the titular church of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme. He was appointed titular bishop of Caesarea in Mauretania and Cardinal Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of the Peoples.

He participated in the papal conclaves that elected Pope Benedict XV and Pope Pius XI.

Van Rossum died on 30 August 1932 in a Maastricht hospital, after falling ill on returning from a visit to Denmark, and was buried first in the Witten cemetery, but later in the Redemptorist church in Wittem.

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    Catholic Church titles
    Preceded by
    Serafino Vannutelli
    Major Penitentiary of Apostolic Penitentiary
    1 October 191512 March 1918
    Succeeded by
    Oreste Giorgi
    Preceded by
    Domenico Serafini
    Prefect of the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith
    12 March 191830 August 1932
    Succeeded by
    Pietro Fumasoni Biondi
    Episcopal lineage
    Consecrated by: Pope Benedict XV
    Consecrator of
    Bishop Date of consecration
    Pietro Pisani December 21, 1919
    Mario Giardini December 8, 1921
    Bernard Gijlswijk December 2, 1922
    Alexis Lépicier May 29, 1924
    Edward Mooney January 31, 1926
    Paschal Charles Robinson May 24, 1927
    Giovanni Battista Dellepiane November 30, 1929
    Antonin Drapier December 22, 1929
    Olaf Offerdahl April 6, 1930
    Carlo Salotti July 6, 1930
    Leo Peter Kierkels April 26, 1931
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