Jan Pieter Schotte

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Jan Pieter Schotte CICM (29 April 1928 – 10 January 2005) was a Belgian cardinal and an official of the Roman Curia.


Jan Pieter Schotte

President of the Labour Office of the Apostolic See
Schotte in 2003
ChurchLatin Church
Appointed14 April 1989
Term ended10 January 2005
SuccessorFrancesco Marchisano
Other post(s)Cardinal-Deacon of San Giuliano dei Fiamminghi (1994–2005)
Previous post(s)
Orders
Ordination3 August 1952
Consecration6 January 1984
by Pope John Paul II
Created cardinal26 November 1994
by Pope John Paul II
RankCardinal-deacon
Personal details
Born
Jan Pieter Schotte

29 April 1928
Beveren-Leie, Belgium
Died10 January 2005(2005-01-10) (aged 76)
Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic, Rome, Italy
BuriedCampo Verano (2005–08)
San Giuliano dei Fiamminghi
Alma mater
MottoParare viam Domino pacis

Biography

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He was born on 29 April 1928 in the town of Beveren-Leie (now a part of Waregem) in the province of West Flanders. He entered the Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (CICM Missionaries) in 1946. He was ordained a priest in 1952. From 1953 to 1956 he studied canon law at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium and from 1962 to 1963 at The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. From 1955 to 1962, he was professor of canon law at the CICM theological seminary in Leuven and from 1957 to 1962 assistant professor at the Higher Institute of Religious Sciences, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. He was vice-rector of the CICM theological seminary in Leuven from 1956 to 1962. In 1963, he became rector of the Immaculate Heart mission seminary in Washington, DC, where he served until 1966. In 1967, he came to Rome as General Secretary of the Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, a post he held until 1972.

Jan Schotte became a bishop in 1984 and an archbishop in 1985. On 26 November 1994 he was given the red hat of cardinal. Schotte was the Secretary General of the Synod of Bishops from 1985 until 2004, leaving the post when Pope John Paul II accepted the resignation that Schotte had submitted in 2003 upon achieving the age limit. He was president of the Office of Labor of the Apostolic See from 1989 until his death.

Schotte died on 10 January 2005 in the Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic in Rome. He was buried in his Deaconry of Saint Julian of the Flemings in Rome. Pope John Paul II delivered the homily at his funeral – the last while John Paul was alive.

References

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  • Biographical notes on Cardinal Schotte, Vatican Website
  • Another biographical note Archived 2 September 2000 at the Wayback Machine