Jan van Cauwelaert

Jan van Cauwelaert CICM ( born April 12, 1914 in Antwerp, Belgium) is a retired Roman Catholic bishop of the diocese Inongo in Congo.

Life

Jan van Cauwelaert, son of psychology professor, Mayor of Antwerp and the Belgian State Secretary Frans Van Cauwelaert, entered the Congregation of the Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary ( Scheut missionaries ), with and received on 6 August 1939, the ordination. He then went into the mission.

In 1954 he was called by Pope Pius XII. appointed Titular Bishop of Metropolis in Asia and Vicar Apostolic of the newly created Vicariate Inongo in what was then the Belgian Congo, a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Kinshasa, ordered. The episcopal consecration on March 25, 1954 He received his Jozef -Ernest van Roey Cardinal, Archbishop of Mechelen; Were co-consecrators Louis Morel CICM, Archbishop of Suiyuan, today Hohhot in China, and Paul Constant Schoenmaekers, Auxiliary Bishop of Mechelen.

After collection of the Apostolic Vicariate of the Diocese he was in 1959 by John XXIII. appointed its bishop. He was an important representative of Africa Participants in the Second Vatican Council and member of the Congregation for the Discipline of the Sacraments.

With the resignation was Jan van Cauwelaert 1967 by Paul VI. appointed Titular Bishop of Uccula. He was then rector of the university of his order of the Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Rome. He also served as Vice - President of Pax Christi.