Roman Catholic Diocese of Bruges

Coordinates: 51°12′18″N 3°13′21″E / 51.204977°N 3.222416°E / 51.204977; 3.222416
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Diocese of Bruges

Dioecesis Brugensis

Bisdom Brugge (Dutch)
Diocèse de Bruges (French)
Bistum Brügge (German)
Lodewijk Aerts
Metropolitan ArchbishopJozef De Kesel
Bishops emeritusRoger Vangheluwe
Map
The diocese of Bruges, coextensive with the province of West Flanders
The diocese of Bruges, coextensive with the province of West Flanders
Website
https://www.kerknet.be/organisatie/bisdom-brugge

The Diocese of Bruges (

Archdiocese of Mechelen-Brussels
, which covers all of Belgium.

A diocese from 1558 to its suppression in 1801, in 1832 it became a pre-diocesan apostolic vicariate as the Apostolic Administration of West Flanders.[1] Its territory coincides with West Flanders.

The episcopal see of the diocese is

minor basilica. The patron saint of the diocese is Donatian of Reims,[2]
so the cathedral is also known as Sint-Salvators- en Donaaskathedraal.

Statistics

As of 2014[update], it pastorally served 965,000 Catholics (82.1% of 1,174,752 total) on 3,145 km² in 362 parishes and 65 missions with 708 priests (499 diocesan, 209 religious), 91 deacons, 1,986 lay religious (290 brothers, 1,696 sisters) and 7 seminarians.

History

An earlier diocese of Bruges was established on 12 May 1558, on territory split off from the

Spanish Low Countries. Its see, St. Donatian's Cathedral, was destroyed in a fire in 1799 during the aftermath of the French Revolution
.

During the reforms under the

Diocese of Ghent
.

On 17 December 1832, shortly after the independence of

province of Hainaut
(to which the bishopric of Tournai is now limited).

In 1985 the diocese of Bruges experienced a papal visit from Pope John Paul II, who on 17 May gave a homily on the horrors of war at Ypres as part of his pastoral visit to the Low Countries.[3]

A 2010 scandal saw Bishop Roger Vangheluwe, a confessed and hardly remorseful pederast, forced into early retirement.

Ordinaries

Franciscus Renatus Boussen
, eighteenth bishop of Brugge
Lode Aerts, bishop as of 2016
Suffragan Bishops (first diocese)
  • 1560–1567: Petrus Curtius (Petrus De Corte)
  • 1569–1594: Remigius Driutius (Remi Drieux)
  • 1596–1602: Mathias Lambrecht
  • 1604–1616: Charles Philippe de Rodoan
  • 1616–1620:
    bishop of Ghent
    )
  • 1623–1629: Denis Stoffels
  • 1630–1639: Servaas de Quinckere
  • 1642–1649: Nicolaas de Haudion
  • 1651–1660:
    bishop of Ghent
    )
  • 1662–1668: Robert de Haynin
  • 1668–1671: Vacant (diocesan administrator Charles Geleyns)
  • 1671–1681: François de Baillencourt
  • 1682–1689:
    Archbishop of Mechelen
    )
  • 1691–1706: Guilielmus (Willem) Bassery
  • 1706–1716: Vacant
  • 1716–1742: Hendrik Jozef van Susteren
  • 1743–1753: Jan-Baptist de Castillon
  • 1754–1775: Joannes-Robertus Caimo
  • 1777–1794: Felix Brenart
  • Suppressed
Apostolic Administrator of West Flanders
  • Coadjutor Bishop
    of Ghent (Belgium) (17 December 1832 – 23 June 1834)
Suffragan Bishops (restored)

See also

Notes

  1. ^ "Diocese of Brugge {Bruges}". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved 23 January 2015.
  2. ^ "Saint Donatian of Rheims". CatholicSaints.info. 17 November 2023. Retrieved 13 December 2023.
  3. ^ "17 maggio 1985, Solenne Celebrazione a Ieper | Giovanni Paolo II". w2.vatican.va.

External links and sources

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