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Humbertus Guilielmus de Precipiano

Humbertus Guilielmus de Precipiano (Rougemont, France, 12 September 1627-Mechelen, 9 June 1711) was Archbishop of Mechelen in Belgium.

Jean-Armand de Bessuéjouls Roquelaure

Jean-Armand de Bessuéjouls Roquelaure (Lassouts, Aveyron 24 February 1721 - 23 April 1818), was Archbishop of Mechelen, Belgium.

Liberal Catholicism

The movement of Liberal Catholicism was initiated in France by Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais with the support of Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire, Charles Forbes René de Montalembert and Olympe-Philippe Gerbet, Bishop of Perpignan, while a parallel movement arose in Belgium, led by François Antoine Marie Constantin de Méan et de Beaurieux, Archbishop of Mechelen, and his vicar general Engelbert Sterckx.

Princess Eléonore of Belgium

She was baptised on 14 June 2008 in the chapel of Ciergnon Castle in the Belgian Ardennes, by Cardinal Godfried Danneels, the Archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels.


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