Jan van Cauwelaert, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Roman Catholic bishop
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Place of Birth: Antwerp, Flemish Region, Belgium
About Jan van Cauwelaert
- Jan van Cauwelaert, C.I.C.M.
- (12 April 1914 – 18 August 2016) was a Belgian-Congolese bishop of the Roman Catholic Church.
- Upon his death at the age of 102, he was one of the oldest bishops in the Church, the oldest European-born bishop and the final living one to have been consecrated by Cardinal Jozef-Ernest van Roey.Van Cauwelaert was born in Antwerp, Belgium in April 1914 as the youngest son of politician Frans Van Cauwelaert, and was ordained a priest on 6 August 1939 with the Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, a Roman Catholic religious institute.
- On 6 January 1954 he was appointed Apostolic Vicar of the Inongo Diocese in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Titular Bishop of Metropolis in Asia.
- He was consecrated on 25 March 1954, and was appointed Bishop of Inongo Diocese on 10 November 1959.
- He resigned from the governance of that see on 12 June 1967 and was transferred to the titular see of Uccula.
- When the title of Bishop Emeritus came into use, he resigned on 12 October 1976 from his titular see, becoming Bishop Emeritus of Inongo.
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