Jacobus de la Torre (1608 – 16 September 1661) served as apostolic vicar of the Apostolic Vicariate of Batavia (1651-1661) and titular archbishop of Ephesus (1647-1661).

Jacobus de la Torre
Bishop of Utrecht
ChurchCatholic Church
DioceseArchdiocese of Utrecht
In office1651–1661
Personal details
Born1608
Died16 September 1661
Coat of armsJacobus de la Torre's coat of arms

Life

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The merchant family De la Torre was originally from Spain and had settled in Bruges in the fifteenth century, where two members would hold the office of consul of the Spanish Empire. Descendant Philip de la Torre moved to The Hague in the early seventeenth century. Jacobus was born there as the second son of this Philip de la Torre, lord of Valkenisse and Maurik and of Henriette van Cuylenburg(h) (also: Hendrika van Culemborg), daughter of Zweder van Culemborg (1541-1597), descendant of a bastard branch from nobleman Hubert van Culemborg (1420-1481). The possession of the lordship of Valkenisse inherited on the brother of Jacobus, François de la Torre, married to Maria van Poelgeest, descendant of the noble Van Poelgeest family. Jacobus de la Torre also descended from the De Cock van Opijnen family.[1]

Jacobus de la Torre studied in Leuven, and was ordained priest in 1633. In 1640 he was appointed coadjutor to Philippus Rovenius, and in 1647 appointed titular archbishop of Ephesus. In 1649 he was dismissed and exiled. He stayed on in Brussels, after a stay in Rome in 1655-56. On his return to Brussels he showed signs of dementia and in 1660 had to be hospitalised. To the dismay of the secular clergy he set up 11 new Jesuit stations in his Concessiones Ephesinae (1652). He died, aged about 53, at Huijbergen.

The Old Catholic Church of the Netherlands considers De la Torre as one of the archbishops of the Old Catholic Archdiocese of Utrecht

Sources

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  • De Katholieke Encyclopaedie (Amsterdam, 1938)

Citations

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  1. ^ J. Vriens: “Tienden Moergestel en familie De la Torre, 1618-1858”, Brabants Historisch Informatie Centrum, september 1970
Catholic Church titles
Preceded by Apostolic vicar
to the
Dutch Mission

1651-1661
Succeeded by
Boudewijn Catz
1662-1663
Preceded by
--
Apostolic vicar
to the
Roman Catholic Diocese of 's-Hertogenbosch

1657-1661
Succeeded by
Boudewijn Catz
1662-1663
Preceded by Archbishop
of the
Old Catholic Archdiocese of Utrecht

1651-1661
Succeeded by
Boudewijn Catz
1662-1663
Preceded by
Basilio Cacace
1624-1646
Titular archbishop
of the
Catholic archdiocese of Ephesus

1647-1661
Succeeded by