Archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels

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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.

[edit] 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)

[edit] References

http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dmech.html