The Archdiocese of Mechelen–Brussels (Latin: Archidioecesis Mechliniensis–Bruxellensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or archdiocese of the...
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archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels is the head of the Archbishopric of Mechelen-Brussels of the Catholic Church in Belgium. It currently encompasses all of Belgium...
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current Archdiocese of Mechelen–Brussels. Mechelen also retained further relevance as the Great Council of Mechelen remained the supreme court of the territory...
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the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Mechelen-Brussels. The patron of the diocese is Saint Bavo of Ghent. The diocese was erected...
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Co-cathedral (category History of cathedrals)
cathedral of the primatial Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mechelen-Brussels is the Metropolitan St. Rumbold's Cathedral in Mechelen (Malines), the archiepiscopal...
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current list of Catholic archdioceses ordered by continent and country (for the Latin Church) and by liturgical rite (for the Eastern Catholic Churches)...
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Archbishop of Mechelen–Brussels and thus Belgium's new primate, but only after the 450th anniversary celebration of the Mechelen–Brussels archdiocese and the...
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serving as the co-cathedral of the Archdiocese of Mechelen–Brussels. On the north-western side of the region, the National Basilica of the Sacred Heart is a...
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for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Jos. Seat of Wisdom Seminary – Established in 1982; for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Owerri Seat of Wisdom Seminary...
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Archdiocese of Cambrai - Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mechelen-Brussels - Roman Catholic Diocese of Liège - Roman/Red - Ronse - Rotselaar - Royal Library of Belgium...
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Province of Mechelen-Brussels, covering Belgium Metropolitan Archdiocese of Mechelen-Brussels, primatial see of Belgium Diocese of Antwerp Diocese of Bruges...
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Metropolitan Archdiocese of Mechelen–Brussels, it is the 14th largest church by area in the world and the largest in Belgium. Located at the head of Elisabeth...
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Godfried Danneels (category Roman Catholic archbishops of Mechelen-Brussels)
2019) was a Belgian Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels and the chairman of the Episcopal Conference of Belgium from 1979 to...
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ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Mechelen-Brussels. Its cathedra is found within the Cathedral of Our Lady. In the Middle Ages...
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jure capital of Belgium Archbishopric of Mechelen-Brussels, an archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Belgium Arrondissement of Brussels, a judicial...
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the Archdiocese of Mechelen-Brussels. The diocese is a suffragan in the ecclesiastical province in the metropolitan Archdiocese of Mechelen-Brussels. Its...
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Luc Terlinden (category Roman Catholic archbishops of Mechelen-Brussels)
is a Belgian Catholic prelate who has served as Archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels, Primate of Belgium and head of the Military Ordinariate of Belgium since...
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Alphonse de Berghes (category Roman Catholic archbishops of Mechelen-Brussels)
Cathedral, his grave sculpted by Jacob de Maeyer. Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mechelen-Brussels Nationaal Biografisch Woordenboek Crown, Church, and...
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Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in France, comprising the arrondissements of Avesnes-sur-Helpe, Cambrai, Douai,...
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co-cathedral of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Mechelen–Brussels, together with St. Rumbold's Cathedral in Mechelen. As the national church of Belgium and...
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restructuring of the Catholic dioceses in Belgium, the Archdiocese of Mechelen was renamed the Archdiocese of Mechelen-Brussels. This newly created archdiocese is...
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Leo Joseph Suenens (category Roman Catholic archbishops of Mechelen-Brussels)
SOO-nens) (16 July 1904 – 6 May 1996) was a Belgian Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels from 1961 to 1979. He was elevated to the cardinalate...
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ecclesiastical province of the Archdiocese of Mechelen-Brussels. Its cathedra is found within St. Paul's Cathedral in the episcopal see of Liège. The original...
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suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Mechelen-Brussels, which covers all of Belgium. A diocese from 1558 to its suppression...
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Paul Lanneau (category 20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Belgium)
Roman Catholic bishop. Ordained to the priesthood in 1949, Lanneau served as auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mechelen-Brussels,...
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Pierre-Lambert Goossens (category Roman Catholic archbishops of Mechelen-Brussels)
(18 July 1827 – 25 January 1906) was a Belgian Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Mechelen from 1884 until his death. He was elevated to the...
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André-Joseph Léonard (category Roman Catholic archbishops of Mechelen-Brussels)
born 6 May 1940) is a Belgian Catholic retired prelate who served as the Archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels and Primate of Belgium from 2010 to 2015. He...
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suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Mechelen-Brussels. The cathedra is found within St. Quentin's Cathedral in Hasselt...
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Désiré-Joseph Mercier (category Roman Catholic archbishops of Mechelen-Brussels)
was a Belgian Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Mechelen from 1906 until his death in 1926. A Thomist scholar, he had several of his works translated...
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of Nostra aetate issued by the Second Vatican Council, the Archdiocese of Mechelen-Brussels officially derecognised the cult. In 1977 Cardinal Leo Joseph...
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