Willem van Rossum

Styles of Willem van Rossum
Reference style	His Eminence
Spoken style	Your Eminence
Informal style	Cardinal
See	Caesarea in Mauretania (titular see)

Willem Marinus van Rossum, C.Ss.R. (September 3, 1854 – August 30, 1932) was a Dutch Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Prefect of the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1911.

Willem van Rossum was born in Zwolle, Netherlands, to Jan and Hendrika (née Veldwillems) van Rossum. He entered the Minor Seminary of Culemborg in 1867, and joined the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, more commonly known as the Redemptorists, on June 15, 1873. He made his profession as a Redemptorist on June 16, 1874.

He was ordained a priest in Wittem on October 17, 1879. He then taught Latin and rhetoric in Roermond, and was a professor of dogmatic theology at the Scholasticate of Wittem from 1883 to 1892. He became the Scholasticate's prefect of studies in 1886 and its rector in 1893.

After becoming a member of the Redemptorist community in Rome in 1895, Rossum was named a consultor to the Congregation of the Holy Office on December 25, 1896. He also became a counselor to the Commission for the Codification of Canon Law on April 15, 1904. He served as general consultor of the Redemptorists from 1909 to 1911.

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