Jan van Cauwelaert

His Excellency, The Most Reverend Jan van Cauwelaert C.I.C.M.
Bishop Inongo Diocese (Emeritus)
Church	Roman Catholic Church
See	Inongo Diocese
In office	1959 - 1967
Predecessor	none
Successor	Léon Lesambo Ndamwize
Orders
Ordination	6 August 1939 (1939-08-06)
Consecration	25 March 1954 (1954-03-25) by Jozef Cardinal Van Roey
Personal details
Born	(1914-04-12) 12 April 1914 Antwerp, Belgium
Previous post	Priest

Jan van Cauwelaert, C.I.C.M. (born 12 April 1914) is a Belgian Bishop of the Roman Catholic Church. At the age of 110, he is one of the oldest bishops in the Church, the oldest European-born bishop, and the last living one consecrated by Cardinal Jozef-Ernest van Roey.

Cauwelaert was born in Antwerp, Belgium in April 1914 as the youngest son of politician Frans Van Cauwelaert, and was ordained a priest on 6 August 1939 with the Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, a Roman Catholic religious institute. On 6 January 1954 he was appointed Apostolic Vicar of the Inongo Diocese in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Titular Bishop of Metropolis in Asia. He was consecrated on 25 March 1954, and was appointed Bishop of Inongo Diocese on 10 November 1959. He resigned from the governance of that see on 12 June 1967 and was transferred to the titular see of Uccula. When the title of Bishop Emeritus came into use, he resigned on 12 October 1976 from his titular see, becoming Bishop Emeritus of Inongo.

See also

• List of oldest Catholic bishops
• Inongo Diocese

External links

• Catholic-Hierarchy