Willem Marinus van Rossum

Wilhelmus Marinus Cardinal van Rossum, C.Ss.R. ( born September 3, 1854 in Zwolle, The Netherlands, † August 30 1932 in Maastricht ) was a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.

Life

Wilhelmus Marinus van Rossum appeared in 1873 in the Redemptorist and received in different houses of the Order, its theological and philosophical training. He received on 17 October 1879, the sacrament of Holy Orders, and then worked as a professor of Latin and rhetoric in Roermond. From 1883 to 1892 he was professor of dogmatics and history of dogma at the scholasticate of Wittem where he from 1886 to 1893 the office of Prefect of Studies sided over the years and presided as rector of the director in the years 1893-1895.

From 1895 to 1911 he was a member of the community of his Order in Rome and was a consultant to the Commission on the Codification of Canon Law. From 1909 to 1911 he took the lead in his religious duties. 1911 took him Pope Pius X as a cardinal deacon with the title Diakonia San Cesareo in Palatio in the College of Cardinals in 1914 and appointed him president of the Pontifical Biblical Commission. Pope Benedict XV. appointed Wilhelmus Marinus van Rossum 1915 Major Penitentiary and elevated him to cardinal priest with the titular church of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme. In 1917 he became a member of the Pontifical Commission for the Authentic Interpretation of the Code of Canon Law.

On April 25, 1918, he appointed him Titular Archbishop of Caesarea in Mauretania and the Cardinal Prefect of the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith and donated to him on 19 May of the same year, the episcopal ordination. Wilhelmus Marinus van Rossum died on 30 August 1932 in Maastricht and was initially buried in the cemetery of Wittem, then later transferred to the church of the Redemptorists in Wittem.