Victor-Auguste Dechamps

Cardinal Victor-Auguste Dechamps (Miss, December 6th 1810 - Malignant, September 29th 1883), Regular Prelate Belgian of the Roman Catholic church, primacy of Belgium, 14th Archbishop of Malignant (1867 - 1883).

Biography

Victor Auguste Isidore Dechamps was born with Miss (Flanders-Eastern) on December 6th, 1810. Victor-Auguste Dechamps entered the orders at the Rédemptoristes. He became bishop of Namur in 1865 and was named archbishop of Malignant after the death of the cardinal Engelbert Sterckx which he succeeded. He was established in 1868.

Raised with the cardinalat on March 15th, 1875.

At the time of the council the Vatican I, it placed in the clan of the partisans of the pontifical Infaillibilité. At the time of the school war which burst during the promulgation of the “Law of misfortune” of the government Brother-Orban and the minister Van Humbeeck, it supported the creation of many schools. At that time, the tension was so sharp between the Belgium and the the Holy See that the diplomatic relations were temporarily broken.

The Dechamps cardinal is also known to have reflected from a theological point of view on the Act of faith and Roger Aubert quotes it in the great historical sum which it devoted to the history of theologies of the act of faith.

He was the brother of Adolphe Dechamps, politician, solved partisan of the unionism.

Monseigneur Pierre-Lambert Goossens, bishop of Namur recently, succeeded to him.

Currency

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