Maximilien de Furstenberg

Maximilien Cardinal de Furstenberg, Maximilian Cardinal von Fürstenberg, ( born October 23, 1904 Palanka ( Castle Ter Worm ) in Heerlen, The Netherlands, † September 22, 1988 in Mont- Goddine, province of Namur, Belgium) was a Belgian priest, Diplomat of the Holy See and Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.

Family

Maximilian Louis Hubert Egon Vincent Marie Joseph Freiherr ( Baron) von Fürstenberg family home, coming from the old Catholic Westphalian noble family of the Barons von Furstenberg Family Home, was the third child of Adolf Freiherr von Fürstenberg family home and his wife Elizabeth, née Countess d ' Oultremont de Wégimont et de Warfusée born. He called himself Maximilien de Furstenberg.

Life

His youth spent at Castle Obsinnig (now Castel Notre Dame) in Remersdael, in Château- ferme de Tavier and Brussels. After attending the Gymnasium of the Benedictine Abbey of Maredsous in Namur from 1915 to 1922 he undertook a study tour of Latin America and studied from 1922 to 1928 Classical Philology and Philosophy at the Facultés Universitaires Saint -Louis in Brussels. He was a soldier in an infantry regiment, most recently a lieutenant in the reserve. In 1925 he enrolled in the Institute of Philosophy of the Catholic University of Leuven, 1928, he became a fellow of the Pontifical Belgian College in Rome at the Pontifical Gregorian University and was there in 1932 received his doctorate in theology. On 9 August 1931, he was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Mechelen.

From 1932 to 1934 he worked at the Saint -Jean Berchmans - Dözesankolleg in Antwerp. From 1934 to 1946 he was professor of liturgy at the seminary in Mechelen. Cardinal Jozef -Ernest van Roey also appointed him in 1934 to his Zeremoniar and canons in Mechelen. From 1935 to 1949 he was a military chaplain of the reserve. On Christmas Day 1943, he was appointed and arrested on a pretext in his mother's house; He was sentenced to two years in Saint -Gilles, Brussels, condemned. He arrived on Christmas Day in 1944 again.

After the end of World War II, he was awarded the Order of Leopold II and appointed chaplain of the Supreme Court in Belgium. 1946 was chosen Maximilien de Furstenberg by the Belgian bishops appointed Head of the Belgian Kolleges ( Pontifical Collegio Belga ) in Rome. Pope Pius XII. appointed him on 13 May 1947 the Pontifical House prelates.

Bishop and Diplomat

After his appointment as Titular Archbishop of Paltus on March 8, 1949 by Pope Pius XII. He was appointed on 22 March 1949 for the Apostolic Delegate in Japan. The Episcopal Ordination in St. Rumbold's Cathedral gave him the Archbishop of Mechlin, Cardinal Jozef -Ernest van Roey, on April 25, 1949; Co-consecrators were the suffragans Joannes van Cauwenbergh malinois and Oscar Joliet from Ghent. Meanwhile Internuncio in Japan, he was also from 1952 to 1953 and ruler of the Nunciature in Korea. On November 21, 1959, he was named by Pope John XXIII. apostolic delegate in Australia, New Zealand and Oceania on 28 April 1962 Apostolic Nuncio in Portugal.

He was a Council Father of the first, third and fourth sessions of the Second Vatican Council.

Cardinal

On June 26, 1967, Pope Paul VI. de Furstenberg cardinal priest with the pro illa vice levied for the titular church of Sacro Cuore di Gesù title Diakonia a Castro Pretorio.

On January 15, 1968 de Furstenberg was appointed Cardinal Prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches. For the fiftieth anniversary of the Congregation he visited India, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Turkey and the Holy Land as well as the patriarch of the Eastern Catholic Churches and the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Opel Athinagoras I.. , He was Special Papal Envoy at the celebrations of the tenth anniversary of the archeparchy Philadelphia of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1969 and special Envoy 1971 2500 anniversary of the Iranian monarchy. In 1972 it was by Pope Paul VI. the Office of the Cardinal Grand Master of the Knights transferred from Holy grave in Jerusalem.

On February 28, 1973 it entpflichtete Paul VI. by the Office of the Cardinal Prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches and appointed him president of the Central Commission for the Holy Year 1975, He was also a member of the following congregations and committees. Commission for the State of the Vatican City and the Institute of the Opere di Religione (Vatican Bank), Congregation for the doctrine of the Faith, Commission for the revision of the Code of Canon Law, the Commission on the editorial staff of the Code of Oriental law, the Congregation for the interpretation of the decrees of the second Vatican Council, the Congregation for the evangelization of Peoples, Council for public Affairs the Church, the Congregation for Bishops, Secretariat for Christian Unity, supremum Tribunal Congregation for Religious and Secular Institutes, etc. Congregation for the Causes of Saints In 1980 he presented for reasons of age, most of these offices. He was papal legate in 1974 as the 1200th anniversary of the Salzburg Cathedral, 1975 in Okinawa, Japan, and in 1982 with the opening of the international pilgrim house and the inauguration of the Pax Christi Chapel in Kevelaer.

When Cardinal de Furstenberg participated in two conclaves in August 1978 ( election of Pope John Paul I ) and October 1978 ( election of Pope John Paul II ), in part. He was Camerlengo of the Holy College of Cardinals on May 24, 1982 to June 25, 1984.

De Furstenberg fell ill and was about to transfer to the University Hospital of Mont- Godinne the Catholic University of Louvain, visited on 30 May 1988 in Rome Gemelli hospital of Pope John Paul II. He died of a cerebral hemorrhage in Mont- Godinne on 22 September 1988. The funeral Mass was on Wednesday, 28 September 1988 held at the Notre -Dame du Sablon in Brussels, the Church of the Belgian Lieutenancy of the Equestrian Order of the Holy grave to Jerusalem. The following day the funeral in the family vault in the Franciscan church was let to create the Apollinarisberg in Remagen, which his great-grandfather Franz Egon of Fürstenberg master home.

Honors and Awards

• Prelate of His Holiness (1947 )
• Grand Cross of the Order of Christ (Portugal, 1966)
• Grand Cross of the Order of Infante Dom Henrique (Portugal, 1967)
• Grand Cross of the Order of Merit pro Merito Melitensi Order of Malta (1967 )