Cornelius Richard Anton van Bommel

Cornelis Richard Anton van Bommel ( born April 5, 1790 in Leiden, † April 7, 1852 in Liège ) was bishop of Liège and champion of the Roman Catholic reaction in Belgium.

Life

Van Bommel received ordination to the priesthood in 1816 and became director of the Seminary of Haegenvelt in North Holland. As the efforts of the Catholic party led the Dutch government to subordinate all educational institutions supervised by the State, and consequently those educational establishment was closed van Bommel stepped back into the private life, but was appointed in 1829 by the king to the bishop of Liege and by Pope Pius VIII confirmed.. He received his episcopal consecration on 15 November 1829, Bishop of Namur, Nicolas Alexis Ondenard; Mitkonsekrator was the bishop of Tournai, Jean -Joseph Delplancq.

1830 Cornelis van Bommel came the Belgian revolution before; he intended the professional anti- interference of the clergy in the political affairs to disapprove. Hardly Belgium had declared its independence, as van Bommel came forward with his quest open to make the supremacy of the Roman see contends. Also in the Cologne turmoil he is said to have secretly participated. It was even given him guilt of having made ​​attempts to excitement of the Rhineland. The Masonic order followed with almost fanatical zeal van Bommel. With regard to the question found his teaching laid down in pamphlets theory, although in 1842 under Jean -Baptiste Nothomb in organizing the elementary school system input; 1850 but resigned the same into the background by the clergy, the acquisition of religious education, the everywhere his due according to the theory of van Bommel, only in those high schools and vocational schools, which partly or wholly maintained by the State, but otherwise does not allow more interference.