Bible Encyclopedias
Papendrecht, Cornelius P. von

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

a Roman Catholic theologian, was born at Dort in the year 1686, and died in 1753, as canon of Mechlin, after having occupied for twenty-four years the office of secretary to the cardinal d'Alsace, archbishop of Mechlin. Papendrecht wrote a History of the Church of Utrecht since the Change of Religion (Mechlin, 1725), and Analecta Belgica (Hague, 1743, 6 vols.), a collection of records bearing upon the history of Belgium, enriched by his comments.