Pierre-Lambert Goosens

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Pierre-Lambert Cardinal Goosens (July 18, 1827—January 25, 1906) was a Belgian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Mechelen from 1884 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1889.

[edit] Biography

Pierre-Lambert Goosens was born in Perk, near Vilvoorde, and ordained to the priesthood on December 21, 1850. He then taught pedagogy at the seminary in Mechelen until 1858, also being named vice-pastor of its cathedral and private secretary to the Archbishop om 1856. After becoming an honorary canon in 1860, Goossens was made vicar general in 1878, and later a Domestic Prelate of His Holiness on August 20, 1880.

On June 1, 1883, Goossens was appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Namur and Titular Bishop of Abdera. He received his episcopal consecration on the following June 24 from Bishop Jean Faict, with Bishops Victor Doutreloux and by Victor van den Branden de Reeth serving as co-consecrators. Goossens succeeded Victor-Auguste-Isidore Dechamps as Bishop of Namur on July 16, 1883, and was later named Archbishop of Mechelen and thus Primate of the Belgian Church on March 24, 1884.

Pope Leo XIII created him Cardinal Priest of S. Croce in Gerusalemme in the consistory of May 24, 1889. Goossens was one of the cardinal electors in the 1903 papal conclave that selected Pope Pius X.

He died in Mechelen, at age 78, and is buried in his native Perk.

[edit] See also

• Archbishopric of Mechelen-Brussel

[edit] External links

• Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church
• Catholic-Hierarchy
• "Pierre-Lambert Goossens". Catholic Encyclopedia. (1913). New York: Robert Appleton Company. 

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