PAMELIUS (JACQUES DE JOIGNY DE PAMÈLE). — Flemish priest, born in Bruges on 13 May 1536, died in Mons on 17 September 1587. Master of Arts on 27 March 1553, in 1561, while still a subdeacon, he was appointed canon of S. Donaziano in Bruges. Ordained a priest on 21 February 1562, in the same year he obtained a licentiate in theology at Louvain. He remained in Bruges until 1578, holding important ecclesiastical offices. He then went to St-Omer, where he was canon of the Cathedral in 1580 and archdeacon the following year. Bishop Mons. De Six appointed him vicar general and, upon his death in 1586, Filippo II designated him as his successor, but he died shortly before receiving the bull.
Highly learned and endowed with ample financial means, he devoted himself to the search for important or valuable works and supervised numerous editions of unpublished texts. At Antwerp in 1565 he printed the Micrologus de ecclesiasticis observationibus opusculum, a liturgical treatise attributed to more than one writer, but now certainly ascribed to Beroldo of Constance. This was followed by Cassiodorus’s Institutiones divinarum et saecularium lectionum (there 1566); Divi Concilii Cypriani Carthaginiensis episcopi opera (there 1568), with the various treatises arranged chronologically; Liturgica Latinorum, in 2 vols. (Cologne 1571), a collection of liturgical texts (including the antiphonary) concerning the Mass; De religionibus diversis non admittendis... ad Ordines Belgii relatio (Antwerp 1589), important for the religious condition of Flanders at the end of the sixteenth century.