Jacobus de la Torre was vicar apostolic of the Dutch Mission

Dutch Mission

The Dutch Mission was from 1592 until 1853 the name of the former Catholic Church province of Utrecht in the area of the current Netherlands....

 from 1651 to 1661 and of the Diocese of 's-Hertogenbosch

Roman Catholic Diocese of 's-Hertogenbosch

The Roman Catholic Diocese of 's Hertogenbosch is a diocese of the Catholic church in the Netherlands. The diocese was historically called Bois-le-Duc. The modern diocese was created in 1853. It is a suffragan of the archdiocese of Utrecht. It is currently led by bishop Hurkmans. Its see is St...

 from 1657 to 1661.

Life

Jacobus de la Torre studied in Leuven

Leuven

Leuven is the capital of the province of Flemish Brabant in the Flemish Region, Belgium...

 and was ordained priest in 1633. In 1640 he was appointed coadjutor to Philippus Rovenius

Philippus Rovenius

Philippus Rovenius, in Dutch Filips van Rouveen was apostolic vicar of the Dutch Mission from 1614 to 1651.-Life:...

, and in 1647 appointed titular archbishop of Ephesus. In 1649 he was dismissed and exiled. He stayed on in Brussels

Brussels

Brussels , officially the Brussels Region or Brussels-Capital Region , is the capital of Belgium and the de facto capital of the European Union...

, after a stay in Rome

Rome

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 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).

Source

• De Katholieke Encyclopaedie (Amsterdam, 1938)