Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mechelen-Brussels
- Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mechelen-Brussels
The Archdiocese of Mechelen-Brussels is an Archdiocese of Catholic church in Belgium. The archdiocese was erected in 1559 and its name was changed, from Mechelen to Mechelen-Brussels, in 1961.
The current Archbishop is Cardinal Godfried Danneels.
Ordinaries
*Antoine Perrenot de Granvella (1561-1582)
*Joannes Hauchin (1583-1589)
*Mathias Hovius (1596-1620)
*Jacobus Boonen (1621-1655)
*Andreas Cruesen (1657-1666)
*Joannes Wachtendonck (1667-1668)
*Alphonse de Berghes (1670-1689)
*Humbertus Guilielmus de Precipiano (1690-1711)
*Thomas-Philippus of Alsace (1715-1759)
*Joannes-Henricus de Franckenberg (1759-1801)
*Jean-Armand de Bessuéjouls Roquelaure (1802-1809)
*François Antoine Marie Constantin de Méan et de Beaurieux (1817-1831)
*Engelbert Sterckx (1832-1867)
*Victor-Auguste-Isidore Dechamps (1867-1883)
*Pierre-Lambert Goosens (1884-1906)
*Desiré-Félicien-François-Joseph Mercier (1906-1926)
*Jozef-Ernest van Roey (1926-1961)
*Leo Joseph Suenens (1962-1980)
*Godfried Danneels (1980- present)
References
http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dmech.html
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