Andreas Ignatius Schaepman

Andreas Ignatius Schaepman ( born September 4, 1815 in Zwolle, † September 19, 1882 in Utrecht ) was a Dutch clergy and Roman Catholic Archbishop of Utrecht. Schaepman in 1857 the first president of the seminary Rijsenburg in Driebergen in the year. A year later he became vicar general. Was Schaepman, after the appointment on July 3, August 26, 1860 by Franciscus Jacobus van Vree, the Bishop of Haarlem, ordained in Rijsenburg auxiliary bishop of Utrecht and Titular Bishop of Esbus. Following the resignation of John Zwijsens he was appointed on February 4, 1868 as Archbishop of Utrecht.

As archbishop himself Schaepman committed for the emancipation of Catholicism in the Netherlands. He supported the foundation of Catholic schools and the establishment of congregations as the Fraters van Utrecht and the Zusters van Sint -Joseph, predominantly related of Catholic education had prescribed. Andreas Ignatius Schaepman promoted the ecclesiastical art and history, for example, in the restoration of Catharijnekerk in Utrecht in neo-Gothic style.

Schaepman participated in the First Vatican Council.