Education
Jacobus de la Torre was born in The Hague, studied in Leuven, and was ordained priest in 1633.
Jacobus de la Torre was born in The Hague, studied in Leuven, and was ordained priest in 1633.
In 1640 he was appointed coadjutor to Philippus Rovenius, and in 1647 appointed titular archbishop of Ephesus. In 1649 he was dismissed and exiled. He stayed on in Brussels, after a stay in Rome in 1655-1656.
On his return to Brussels he showed signs of dementia and in 1660 had to be hospitalised.
He died, aged about 53, at Huijbergen.