Jacobus Duivenvoorde

Jacobus Duivenvoorde MSC, also Jaap Duivenvoorde, (born 15 November 1928 Heemskerk, † November 16, 2011 in Tilburg ) was a Dutch religious clergyman and Roman Catholic Archbishop of Merauke.

Life

Jacobus Duivenvoorde occurred on September 21, 1949 at the Congregation of the Sacred Heart missionaries and received on September 5, 1954 in stone to the priesthood. Two years later he became a missionary in Dutch New Guinea. He was the director of the Minor Seminary and secretary of Bishop Herman Tillemans MSC, the Vicar Apostolic of Merauke. He accompanied the construction of the Archdiocese of Merauke and was followed by Archbishop Herman Tillemans MSC in office.

Pope Paul VI. appointed him on 26 June 1972 Archbishop of Merauke in Indonesia. The Archbishop Emeritus of Merauke, Herman Tillemans MSC, donated to him on October 1, 1972, the episcopal ordination; Co-consecrators were Herman Ferdinandus Maria Münninghoff OFM, Bishop of Djajapura, and Peter van Diepen OESA Malachy, Bishop of Manokwari.

He was a member of the Indonesian Bishops' Conference. In 2000 he became involved with Leo Laba Ladjar OFM, Bishop of Jayapura, in the Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid, a commitment to peace and justice for the population due to the Papua conflict ( Organisasi Papua Merdeka ). In 2003 he was a signatory of an emergency declaration of the Indonesian Bishops to Kofi Annan, Secretary-General of the United Nations, on the occasion of the Iraq war in 2003.

On 30 April 2004 Pope John Paul II accepted his resignation due to age; he lived in Tilburg, Netherlands, and died of complications from lung cancer.

Jacobus Duivenvoorde was a knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion.