Metadata: Archives of archbishop Engelbertus Sterckx
Collection
- Country:
- Belgium
- Holding institution:
- Archives of the Archbishopric
- Holding institution (official language):
- Aartsbisschoppelijk Archief
- Postal address:
- Diocesaan Pastoraal Centrum, Varkensstraat 6, 2800 Mechelen
- Phone number:
- +32 015 29 84 22
- Email:
- archiv@diomb.be
- Reference number:
- Archbish-Mechelen-B.1.2.1.2.
- Title:
- Archives of archbishop Engelbertus Sterckx
- Title (official language):
- Archief van aartsbisschop Engelbertus Sterckx
- Creator/accumulator:
- Sterckx, Engelbert
- Date(s):
- 1809/1873
- Extent:
- 5 linear metres
- Scope and content:
- This fonds contains a file no. 68 (dated 1840-1855), in which we find correspondence with the Central Jewish Consistory of Belgium related to a number of cases of antisemitism (e.g. regarding a teacher of Catholic religion).
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Engelbert Sterckx (1792-1867) was a pastor in Boechout (1821) and Antwerp (1824-1830), and later vicar general of the archbishopric of Mechelen (1827). He held the function of archbishop from 1832 until 1867. (“Engelbert Sterckx (1792-1867)”, in ODIS - Database Intermediary Structures Flanders (accessible on http://www.odis.be))
- Access points: persons/families:
- Sterckx, Engelbertus
- Finding aids:
- There is an unpublished inventory.
- Yerusha Network member:
- State Archives of Belgium
