The Belgian Bishops' Conference or the Episcopal Conference of Belgium ( nl, Belgische Bisschoppenconferentie; french: Conférence épiscopale de Belgique; german: Belgische Bischofskonferenz) is the permanent organ of the Roman Catholic bishops in
Belgium
Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to th ...
. It is a member of the
Council of European Bishops' Conferences. It includes the bishops, auxiliary bishops and retired bishops of the ecclesiastical province of
Belgium
Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to th ...
.
Bureau
The chairman is the archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels,
Jozef De Kesel. The Secretary-General is
Herman Cosijns.
Members of the Belgian Bishops' Conference
Bishops
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Jozef De Kesel, archbishop of
Mechelen-Brussel
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Johan Bonny
Johan Jozef Bonny (Born 10 July 1955) is the 22nd Bishop of Antwerp, Belgium.
Biography
Johan Bonny was born in Moere (Gistel) in 1955. He is the oldest of five children from a farmer's family. He is the son of Gustaaf Bonny and Marie-Jeanne ...
, bishop of
Antwerp
Antwerp (; nl, Antwerpen ; french: Anvers ; es, Amberes) is the largest city in Belgium by area at and the capital of Antwerp Province in the Flemish Region. With a population of 520,504,
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Lodewijk Aerts, bishop of
Bruges
Bruges ( , nl, Brugge ) is the capital and largest City status in Belgium, city of the Provinces of Belgium, province of West Flanders in the Flemish Region of Belgium, in the northwest of the country, and the sixth-largest city of the countr ...
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Jean-Pierre Delville
Jean-Pierre Delville (born 29 April 1951) is a Belgian prelate of the Catholic Church who has been the Bishop of Liège since 2013. His earlier career was devoted to church history and teaching, which he always combined with pastoral activity. He ...
, bishop of
Liège
Liège ( , , ; wa, Lîdje ; nl, Luik ; german: Lüttich ) is a major city and municipality of Wallonia and the capital of the Belgian province of Liège.
The city is situated in the valley of the Meuse, in the east of Belgium, not far from b ...
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Guy Harpigny
Guy Harpigny (born 13 April 1948 in Luttre, Belgium) is a Belgian Bishop of the Catholic Church.
He was ordained to the priesthood on 7 July 1973. On 22 May 2003 he was appointed Bishop of the Diocese of Tournai by Pope John Paul II
P ...
, bishop of
Tournai
Tournai or Tournay ( ; ; nl, Doornik ; pcd, Tornai; wa, Tornè ; la, Tornacum) is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium. It lies southwest of Brussels on the river Scheldt. Tournai is part of Euromet ...
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Patrick Hoogmartens, bishop of
Hasselt
Hasselt (, , ; la, Hasseletum, Hasselatum) is a Belgian city and municipality, and capital and largest city of the province of Limburg in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is known for its former branding as "the city of taste", as well as its ...
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Rémy Vancottem
Rémy Victor Vancottem (born 25 July 1943) is the Roman Catholic Diocese of Namur, bishop of Namur, since his installation on 20 June 2010. He had previously served as an auxiliary bishop of Mechelen-Brussels.Namur
Namur (; ; nl, Namen ; wa, Nameur) is a city and municipality in Wallonia, Belgium. It is both the capital of the province of Namur and of Wallonia, hosting the Parliament of Wallonia, the Government of Wallonia and its administration.
Namu ...
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Lucas Van Looy
Lucas Van Looy S.D.B. (born 28 September 1941) is a Belgian prelate of the Catholic Church who was Bishop of Ghent from 2004 to 2019. He worked as a missionary in South Korea for more than a decade and held leadership positions with the Salesian ...
, bishop of
Ghent
Ghent ( nl, Gent ; french: Gand ; traditional English: Gaunt) is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is the capital and largest city of the East Flanders province, and the third largest in the country, exceeded in ...
Auxiliary bishops
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Pierre Warin
Pierre is a masculine given name. It is a French form of the name Peter. Pierre originally meant "rock" or "stone" in French (derived from the Greek word πέτρος (''petros'') meaning "stone, rock", via Latin "petra"). It is a translation ...
, auxiliary bishop of Namur
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Jean Kockerols
Jean Kockerols (born 13 August 1958 in Brecht, Belgium) is a Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop in Belgium.
Kockerols was ordained a priest on 18 September 1993 and was later the Dean of Brussels-South. He was appointed auxiliary bishop of the Ar ...
, auxiliary bishop of Mechelen-Brussel
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Jean-Luc Hudsyn, auxiliary bishop of Mechelen-Brussel
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Léon Lemmens
Leon, Léon (French) or León (Spanish) may refer to:
Places
Europe
* León, Spain, capital city of the Province of León
* Province of León, Spain
* Kingdom of León, an independent state in the Iberian Peninsula from 910 to 1230 and again fro ...
, auxiliary bishop of Mechelen-Brussel
Emeriti
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Godfried Danneels
Godfried Maria Jules Danneels (4 June 1933 – 14 March 2019) was a Belgian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the Metropolitan Archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels and the chairman of the episcopal conference of his native countr ...
, cardinal, archbishop emeritus of Mechelen-Brussel
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André-Joseph Léonard
André-Joseph Léonard (born 6 May 1940) is a Belgian prelate who served as the Archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels and Primate of Belgium after his installation on 27 February 2010. He had previously served as Bishop of Namur from 1991 until 2010 u ...
, archbishop emeritus of Mechelen-Brussel
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Albert Houssiau
Albert Jean Charles Ghislain Houssiau (born 2 November 1924) is a Belgian prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as bishop of Liège from 1986 to 2001. , bishop emeritus of Liège
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Aloys Jousten
Aloys Jousten (2 November 1937 – 20 September 2021) was a bishop emeritus of the Diocese of Liège in Belgium.
Jousten was born in Sankt-Vith on 2 November 1937, and ordained priest in Liège on 8 July 1962. He held the degree of Doctor of The ...
, bishop emeritus of Liège
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Arthur Luysterman, bishop emeritus of Ghent
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Paul Van den Berghe
Paul Van den Berghe (born 7 January 1933 in Geraardsbergen, Belgium) is a Belgium Bishop in the Roman Catholic Church.
Biography
Van den Berghe obtained a degree in Thomist philosophy and was ordained a priest on 15 June 1957. He then earned a do ...
, bishop emeritus of Antwerp
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Jan De Bie, auxiliary bishop emeritus of Mechelen-Brussel
Operation
Within the Belgian Bishops' Conference, there are four standing committees and three Episcopal bishops committee. Each of them stands in front of a bishop to be elected as members of two or three bishops, as other members of the clergy and experts can be included. Furthermore, the bishops' conference has a coordination committee. In his work on the commissions and committees are prepared to be further discussed and inter-diocesan projects. This committee is chaired by the chairman of the Bishops' Conference.
Commissions and committees
* Commission on Faith and Church
* Commission on Evangelism
* Commission for the Diocese
* Commission "Gaudium et Spes"
* Committee for Media
* Committee for administrative, legal and financial issues
* Committee for Contacts with the public institutions and local governments
See also
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Catholic Church in Belgium
References
External links
bisschoppenconferentieon Kerknet
Le conference des évêqueson Cathobel
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