Gaspard Nemius Explained

Type:Archbishop
Honorific-Prefix:Illustrious and Most Reverend Doctor
Gaspard Nemius
Archbishop of Cambrai
Church:Roman Catholic
Diocese:Cambrai
See:Notre Dame de Cambrai
Elected:24 August 1649
Enthroned:19 March 1652
Predecessor:Joseph de Bergaigne
Successor:Ladislas Jonart
Consecration:22 July 1635
Other Post:Bishop of Antwerp (1635–1651)
Birth Date:1587 4, df=yes
Birth Place:'s-Hertogenbosch, Duchy of Brabant, Spanish Netherlands
Death Place:Cambrai, Spanish Netherlands
Education:Theology
Alma Mater:University of Douai

Gaspard du Bois, Latinized Nemius (1587–1667) was the sixth bishop of Antwerp and the ninth archbishop of Cambrai.[1]

Life

Nemius was born in 's-Hertogenbosch on 23 April 1587. He studied at the University of Douai, graduating Doctor of Sacred Theology, and went on to lecture in Theology there. On 23 May 1634 he was appointed bishop of Antwerp, and he was consecrated in Antwerp Cathedral on 22 July 1635. On 10 October 1642 he founded a confraternity of the Blessed Trinity in St. James' Church, Antwerp,[2]

Notes and References

  1. Léopold Devillers, "Nemius (Gaspard)", Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 15, (Brussels, 1899), 583-584.
  2. La confrairie de la tres-saincte trinité (Antwerp, 1646), pp. 9-10. Available on Google Books.
  3. A. Le Glay, Recherches sur l'église métropolitaine de Cambrai (Paris, 1825), p. 73.
  4. 't Broederschap vande H. Dryvuldigheyt (Antwerp, 1682). Available on Google Books. to support the work of the Trinitarian Order in redeeming Christian captives.[2]

    On 24 August 1649 he was elected archbishop of Cambrai. The election received papal confirmation in 1651, and he was installed 19 March 1652. He died in Cambrai on 22 November 1667 and was buried in the choir of the cathedral.[3]

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