Willem Marinus van Rossum

Willem Marinus van Rossum
Cardinal
Church	Catholic Church
See	Caesarea in Mauretania (titular see)
Other post(s)	Major Penitentiary of the Apostolic Penitentiary (1915–1918), Prefect of the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith (1918–1932)
Personal details
Born	September 3, 1854 Zwolle, Overijssel, Netherlands
Died	August 30, 1932(1932-08-30) (aged 77) Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands
Nationality	Dutch
Ordination history
History Priestly ordination Date October 17, 1870 Place Wittem, Limburg, Netherlands Cardinalate Elevated by Pope Pius X Date 1911
Episcopal succession Bishops consecrated by Willem Marinus van Rossum as principal consecrator 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

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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