Roman Catholic Diocese of 's-Hertogenbosch
Diocese of 's-Hertogenbosch Dioecesis Buscoducensis Bisdom 's-Hertogenbosch | |
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Location | |
Country | Netherlands |
Statistics | |
Area | 3,826 km2 (1,477 sq mi) |
Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2020) 2,155,280 1,045,470 (48.5%) |
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Denomination | Catholic Church |
Sui iuris church | Latin Church |
Rite | Roman Rite |
Established | 12 May 1559 |
Cathedral | Cathedral Basilica of Saint John the Evangelist |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Bishop | Gerard de Korte |
Metropolitan Archbishop | Cardinal Wim Eijk |
Auxiliary Bishops | Robertus G L M Mutsaerts |
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The Diocese of 's-Hertogenbosch (
History
The city of
When after a long siege the city was captured by
The diocese of 's-Hertogenbosch was administered in this fashion until 1853. In 1810 Napoleon had tried to create another diocese under that name, inclusive of the territory known as the Bouches du Rhin, and obtained a titular for the new see in the person of the imperial courtier, Monsignor Van Camp. A similar failure awaited the attempt, authorized by the Concordat of 27 August 1827, to divide all of the Netherlands into two large dioceses, Amsterdam and 's-Hertogenbosch.
The ancient see was finally revived by Pope Pius IX on the occasion of the restoration of the hierarchy in the Netherlands, where, since 1848, the revised constitution has assured Catholics full political and religious liberty. Together with three other Dutch sees, 's-Hertogenbosch was re-established by the pontifical Breve of 4 March 1853, and with its former limits; all four sees were made suffragan to Utrecht. Jan Zwijsen, a native of the diocese and its most illustrious son, hitherto vicar-Apostolic, was the first bishop of the re-established see, though temporarily he was known as administrator-Apostolic, since he was already Archbishop of Utrecht, with which office he was to unite the government of 's-Hertogenbosch.
In 1865, the first provincial synod was held there. In 1868 he resigned the archiepiscopal See of Utrecht, but continued the administration of 's-Hertogenbosch. He was succeeded by Adrianus Godschalk, who died in 1892, leaving the see to be filled by Bishop William van den Ven. The above-mentioned miraculous statue of the Blessed Virgin was restored to the cathedral. During the 1960s, the relatively strong
In 2006, slightly more than half of the Brabantian people identified with Catholicism. In the Diocese of 's-Hertogenbosch, the eastern part of North Brabant and part of the province of Gelderland, 1,167,000 people felt associated with the Roman Catholic belief system (56.8 percent of the population). Only 45,645 residents of this area attend the mass, which is only 2 percent of the total population of the area and consists mostly of people over 65 years old.[2]
North Brabant is mostly
Bishops of 's-Hertogenbosch since 1853
- Johannes Zwijsen (Zwysen) (13 Oct 1851 Succeeded - 16 Oct 1877 Died)
- Adrianus Godschalk (8 Jan 1878 Appointed - 4 Jan 1892 Died)
- Wilhelmus van de Ven (27 May 1892 Appointed - 22 Dec 1919 Died)
- Arnold Frans Diepen (24 Dec 1919 Succeeded - 18 Mar 1943 Died)
- Willem Pieter Adriaan Maria Mutsaerts (18 Mar 1943 Succeeded - 27 Jun 1960 Resigned)
- Wilhelmus Marinus Bekkers (27 Jun 1960 Succeeded - 9 May 1966 Died)
- Johannes Willem Maria Bluyssen (Bluijssen) (11 Oct 1966 Appointed - 1 Mar 1984 Resigned)
- Joannes Gerardus ter Schure, S.D.B. (31 Jan 1985 Appointed - 13 Jun 1998 Retired)
- Antonius Lambertus Maria Hurkmans (13 Jun 1998 Appointed - 5 Mar 2016 Resigned)
- Gerard Johannes Nicolaus de Korte (5 Mar 2016 Appointed - )[4]
References
- Johannes Franciscus Foppens, Historia episcopatus Sylvoeducensis (Brussels, 1721)
- Coppens, Nieuwe beschryving van het bisdom s'Hertogenbosch (Bois-le-Duc, 1840–44), i-iv
- Hezenmans, De St. Janskerk te s'Hertogenbosch en hare geschiedenis (Bois-le-Duc, 1866)
- Albers, Geschiedenis van het herstel der hierarchie in de Nederlanden (Nymegen, 1903–1904), i-ii; Neerlandia catholica (Utrecht, 1888).
See also
Notes
- ^ Diocese Profile, Catholic-Hierarchy.org; accessed 8 April 2018.
- ^ Kerncijfers 2006 uit de kerkelijke statistiek van het Rooms-Katholiek Kerkgenootschap in Nederland, Rapport nr. 561 oktober 2007, Jolanda Massaar- Remmerswaal dr. Ton Bernts, KASKI, onderzoek en advies over religie en samenleving
- ISBN 9789025957407
- ^ "'s Hertogenbosch (Bois-le-Duc) (Latin (or Roman) Diocese) [Catholic-Hierarchy]". www.catholic-hierarchy.org. Retrieved 2020-09-04.
External links
- New Advent.org information, newadvent.org; accessed 8 April 2018.
- Official website of the diocese, bisdomdenbosch.nl; accessed 8 April 2018.(in Dutch)