Bernardus Johannes Alfrink

His Eminence

Bernardus Johannes Alfrink
Cardinal, Archbishop of Utrecht
Primate of the Netherlands
Cardinal Bernardus Johannes Alfrink
ChurchLatin Church
ArchdioceseUtrecht
Installed31 October 1955
Term ended6 December 1975
PredecessorJohannes de Jong
SuccessorJohannes Willebrands
Orders
Ordination15 August 1924
by Henricus van de Wetering
Consecration17 July 1951
by Paolo Giobbe
Created cardinal28 March 1960
by John XXIII
RankCardinal Priest
Personal details
Born5 July 1900
Nijkerk, Netherlands
Died17 December 1987 (1987-12-18) (aged 87)
Nieuwegein, Netherlands
BuriedSaint Catherine's Cathedral, Utrecht, Netherlands
NationalityDutch
DenominationRoman Catholic
MottoEVANGELIZARE DIVITIAS CHRISTI

Bernardus Johannes Alfrink (5 July 1900 – 17 December 1987) was a Dutch Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Utrecht from 1955 to 1975, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1960.[1]

Biography

Coat of arms of cardinal Bernardus Alfrink.

Born in Nijkerk, Bernardus Johannes Alfrink was the youngest son of Theodorus Johannes Alfrink and his wife, Elisabeth Catharina Ossenvoort. His mother died in 1901 at the birth of his two younger twin sisters (both of whom also died after a few months), after which Bernardus was cared for by a childless aunt from neighboring Barneveld for the next three years. The priest who baptized him was Father Johannes Verstege. Alfrink received his first Communion in 1911.

After attending the minor seminary in Culemborg, he enrolled in the seminary at Rijsenburg, and, eventually attended the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome. He was ordained to the priesthood on 15 August 1924 by Archbishop Henricus van de Wetering. He completed his studies at the École Biblique in Jerusalem in 1930, the same year he was appointed chaplain in Maarssen. He also did pastoral work in Utrecht until 1933. Alfrink taught at the Seminary of Rijsenburg (1933–1945) and later the Catholic University of Nijmegen (1945–1951).

On 28 May 1951, he was appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of Utrecht and Titular Archbishop of Tyana. Alfrink received his episcopal consecration on the following 17 July from Archbishop Paolo Giobbe, papal internuncio in The Hague, with Bishops Willem Lemmens and Jan Smit serving as co-consecrators, in Saint Catherine's Cathedral.

Alfrink succeeded Cardinal Johannes de Jong as Archbishop of Utrecht on 31 October 1955 and was named Apostolic vicar of the Catholic Military vicariate of the Netherlands on 16 April 1957. He contributed to scientific publications, led the Pax Christi movement in the Netherlands, and was created Cardinal-Priest of San Gioacchino ai Prati di Castello by Pope John XXIII in the consistory of 28 March 1960.

From 1962 to 1965, the Dutch primate participated at the Second Vatican Council, and sat on its Board of Presidency. During one session of the council, Alfrink had Cardinal Alfredo Ottaviani's microphone turned off after the latter exceeded his time limit.[2]

Alfrink was one of the cardinal electors in the 1963 papal conclave, which selected Pope Paul VI. Along with Cardinal Giovanni Colombo, he assisted Cardinal Achille Liénart in delivering one of the closing messages of the council on 8 December 1965.[3]

After the first meeting between Church and Freemasonry which had been held on 11 April 1969 at the convent of the Divine Master in Ariccia, he was the protagonist of a series of public handshakes between high prelates of the Roman Catholic Church and the heads of Freemasonry.[4]

He served as President of the Episcopal Conference of the Netherlands. Resigning as Utrecht's archbishop on 6 December 1975, he later voted in the conclaves of August and October 1978, which selected Popes John Paul I and John Paul II respectively. During the last years of his life, Alfrink lived, with his housekeeper Dora, in a bungalow at Dijnselburg near Huis ter Heide. The bungalow was called "Dora et Labora" by the Cardinal. It was specifically designed for him. He reappeared in public when Pope John Paul II visited the cardinal in 1985 during a papal visit to Benelux.[citation needed]

Bernardus Johannes Cardinal Alfrink died in Nieuwegein at age 87, and after his funeral services in St. Catharine's Cathedral, was buried at St. Barbara's cemetery, next to his predecessor.[citation needed]

Views

Aggiornamento

Viewed by some as a "liberal",[5] the Cardinal once said, "It is always a good thing for the Church to move forward. It is not good if the Church comes to a standstill."[6]

Edward Schillebeeckx

Nijmegen's Dominican theologian Edward Schillebeeckx was Alfrink's regular advisor. Alfrink supported Schillebeeckx and took the latter's condemnation [clarification needed] as an offence to the Catholic Church in the Netherlands.[citation needed]

Royal conversion

Alfrink refused to respond to the Dutch Reformed Church's call for clarification in regards to Princess Irene's conversion to Catholicism in connection with her intended marriage to Prince Carlos Hugo of Bourbon-Parma.[citation needed]

Awards and honors

In 1986, Alfrink received the Four Freedoms Award for the Freedom of Worship.[7]

Alfrink's bibliography

  • Israelitische und Babylonische Jenseitsvorstellungen. Dissertation bei der Päpstlichen Bibelkommission zur Erlangung der Doktorwürde eingereicht von Bernhard Alfrink, Priester der Erzdiözese Utrecht (Rome, 1930)
  • Het Boek Prediker (Brugge, 1932)
  • Het boek Ecclesiasticus (Brugge, 1934)
  • Epistels en evangeliën volgens het Romeinsch missaal (met G. Hartmann en P. van Grinsven, Hilversum, 1938)
  • Het Passieverhaal der vier Evangelisten (Nijmegen, 1946)
  • Over "typologische« exegese" van het Oude Testament (oratie, Nijmegen, 1945)
  • Josue, uit de grondtekst vertaald en uitgelegd (Roermond, 1952)
  • Vragen aan de Kerk: toespraken van kardinaal Alfrink in de jaren van het concilie, met een inleiding van Edward Schillebeeckx (Utrecht/Baarn, 1967)
  • Vrede is meer ... – kardinaal Alfrink over oorlog en vrede Pax Christi, 1973
  • Leven in de Kerk. Michel van der Plas in gesprek met Kardinaal Alfrink (Utrecht/Baarn, 1984), ISBN 9026306547

References

  1. ^ "Alfrink, Bernard Jan Cardinal". Who Was Who in America, 1993–1996, vol. 11. New Providence, N.J.: Marquis Who's Who. 1996. p. 4. ISBN 0837902258.
  2. ^ "What Went Wrong With Vatican II". Ewtn.com. Retrieved 30 June 2020.
  3. ^ "To Rulers". Christusrex.org. Archived from the original on 3 April 2007.
  4. ^ Sandro Magister (19 August 1999). "Tra il papa e il massone non c'è comunione" [There is no communion between the pope and the Mason] (in Italian). L'Espresso.
  5. ^ "Council of Renewal". Time.com. 5 October 1962. Archived from the original on 30 September 2007. Retrieved 30 June 2020.
  6. ^ "The Radical, Revolutionary Church of The Netherlands". Time.com. 31 March 1967. Archived from the original on 30 September 2007. Retrieved 30 June 2020.
  7. ^ "Four Freedoms Awards". Archived from the original on 25 March 2015. Retrieved 30 June 2020.
Catholic Church titles
Preceded by Titular Archbishop of Tyana
28 May 1951 – 31 October 1955
Succeeded by
Preceded by Archbishop of Utrecht
31 October 1955 – 6 December 1975
Succeeded by
New title Apostolic vicar of the Military vicariate of the Netherlands
1957–1975
New title Cardinal Priest of San Gioacchino ai Prati di Castello
28 March 1960 – 17 December 1987
Succeeded by
Preceded by International President of Pax Christi
1965—1978
Succeeded by

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