Jozef-Ernest van Roey
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His Eminence Jozef-Ernest van Roey |
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| Cardinal, Archbishop of Mechelen Primate of Belgium |
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| Church | Roman Catholic |
| Archdiocese | Mechelen |
| In office | 12 March 1926 - 6 August 1961 |
| Predecessor | Désiré-Joseph Mercier |
| Successor | Leo Joseph Suenens |
| Other posts | Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli Military Apostolic Vicar of Belgium |
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| Ordination | 18 September 1897 |
| Consecration | 25 April 1926 by Clemente Micara |
| Created Cardinal | 20 June 1927 by Pius XI |
| Rank | Cardinal-Priest |
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13 January 1874 Vorselaar, Belgium |
| Died | 6 August 1961 (aged 87) Mechelen, Belgium |
| Buried | St. Rumbold's Cathedral |
| Nationality | Belgian |
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| Reference style | His Eminence |
| Spoken style | Your Eminence |
| Informal style | Cardinal |
| See | Mechelen |
Jozef-Ernest van Roey (13 January 1874 – 6 August 1961) was a Belgian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Mechelen from 1926 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1927. He was significant figure in Catholic resistance to Nazism in Belgium.
Jozef-Ernest van Roey was born in Vorselaar, as the first of the five children of Stanislas and Anna-Maria (née Bartholomeus) van Roey. His siblings were named Bernadette, Louis, Véronique, and Stephanie (who became a nun). He was baptized the same day of his birth in the parish church of Vorselaar. Van Roey studied under the Jesuits in Vorselaar before entering Saint-Joseph School in Herentals in 1885. He graduated in 1892, whence he entered the minor seminary in Mechelen. From 1894 to 1897, he studied theology at the Major Seminary of Mechelen. He was ordained to the priesthood by Cardinal Pierre-Lambert Goossens on 18 September 1897.
Van Roey then furthered his studies at the University of Louvain, from where he obtained his doctorate in theology and the habilitation in 1903. He taught at the Collège Americaine from 1901 to 1905, and at the University of Louvain from 1905 to 1907. During this time, Van Roey also became a friend of Columba Marmion, OSB, who would later be beatified in 2000. On 19 May 1907, he was made an honorary canon of the metropolitan chapter of Mechelen. He served as vicar general of the city from 30 September 1907 to 1925, and was raised to the rank of Domestic Prelate of His Holiness on 2 April 1909. Van Roey participated in the Conversations of Mechelen, a series of ecumenical dialogues between clergymen from the Roman Catholic and Anglican Churches hosted by Cardinal Désiré-Joseph Mercier, from 1921 to 1926. He became secretary of the diocesan synod in 1924, and a protonotary apostolic on 11 February 1925.
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