Roman Catholic Diocese of Namur

Diocese of Namur Dioecesis Namurcensis Diocèse de Namur (French) Bistum Namur (German) Bisdom Namen (Dutch)
St Aubin's Cathedral in Namur, Belgium
Location
Country	Belgium
Ecclesiastical province	Mechelen-Brussels
Metropolitan	Archdiocese of Mechelen-Brussels
Statistics
Area	8,100 km2 (3,100 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2013) 751,000 568,000 (75.6%)
Information
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	12 May 1559
Cathedral	St Aubin's Cathedral in Namur, Belgium
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Rémy Vancottem
Metropolitan Archbishop	André-Joseph Léonard
Auxiliary Bishops	Pierre Warin
Map
The Diocese of Namur, coextensive with the two provinces of Namur and Luxembourg
Website
Website of the Diocese

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Namur is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in Belgium.^[1] It is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Mechelen-Brussel.^[2]

Bishops of Namur

Bishops of the first diocese

• Antoine Havet, O.P., 1561–1578
• François Wallon-Capelle, 1580–1592
• Jean Dave, 1593–1595
• Jacques Blaseus, O.F.M. Rec., 1597–1601, later bishop of Saint-Omer
• François Buisseret, 1601–1615, later archbishop of Cambrai
• Jean Dauvin, 1615–1629
• Engelbert Des Bois, 1630–1651
• Jean de Wachtendonck, 1654–1668, later archbishop of Mechelen
• Ignace Schetz de Grobbendonk, 1669–1679, formerly bishop of Roermond, later bishop of Ghent
• Pierre Vandenperre, 1680–1695
• Ferdinand de Berlo de Brus, 1698–1725
• Thomas Strickland de Sizergh, 1727–1740
• Paul-Godefroi de Berlo de Franc-Douaire, 1741–1771
• Ferdinand-Marie de Lobkowitz, 1772–1779, later bishop of Ghent
• Albert Louis de Lichtervelde, 1780–1796

Bishops since 1802

• Claude de Bexon (25 May 1802 - 15 Sep 1803 )
• Nicolas-Alexis Ondenard ( 1828 - 1830 )
• Jean Arnold Barret (15 Apr 1833 - 31 Jul 1835 )
• Nicolas-Joseph Dehesselle (1 Feb 1836 - 1865 )
• Victor-Auguste-Isidor Deschamps, C.SS.R. (25 Sep 1865 - 20 Dec 1867 )
• Théodore-Joseph Gravez (20 Dec 1867 - 1883 Died)
• Pierre-Lambert Goosens (16 Jul 1883 - 24 Mar 1884 )
• Édouard-Joseph Belin (27 Mar 1884 - 1892 )
• Jean-Baptiste Decrolière ( 1892 - 1899 )
• Thomas Louis Heylen, O. Praem. (23 Oct 1899 - 28 Oct 1941 )
• André Marie Charue (12 Dec 1941 - 24 Jun 1974 )
• Robert-Joseph Mathen (24 Jun 1974 - 7 Feb 1991 )
• Andre-Mutien Leonard (7 Feb 1991 - 18 Jan 2010)
• Rémy Victor Vancottem (31 May 2010 - )

References

1. ↑ Namur - Catholic Encyclopedia article
2. ↑ Diocese of Namur {Namen} from catholic-hierarchy.org

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "^{article name needed}". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton. 

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