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Catholic Church in Belgium, the Glossary

The Catholic Church in Belgium, part of the global Catholic Church in Belgium, is under the spiritual leadership of the Pope, the curia in Rome and the Episcopal Conference of Bishops.^[1]

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Alberto Hurtado

Alberto Hurtado (born Luis Alberto Hurtado Cruchaga on January 22, 1901 in Viña del Mar, Chile – August 18, 1952 in Santiago, Chile), popularly known in Chile as Padre Hurtado (Spanish for "Father Hurtado"), was a Chilean Jesuit priest, lawyer, social worker, and writer, of Basque ancestry.

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Amoris laetitia

Amoris laetitia (The Joy of Love) is a post-synodal apostolic exhortation by Pope Francis addressing the pastoral care of families.

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André-Joseph Léonard

André-Joseph Léonard (born 6 May 1940) is a Belgian Catholic retired prelate who served as the Archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels and Primate of Belgium from 2010 to 2015.

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Angleur

Angleur (Angleûr) is a sub-municipality of the city of Liège located in the province of Liège, Wallonia, Belgium.

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Basilica

In Ancient Roman architecture, a basilica was a large public building with multiple functions that was typically built alongside the town's forum.

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Basilica of the Sacred Heart, Brussels

The National Basilica of the Sacred Heart (Basilique nationale du Sacré-Cœur; Nationale Basiliek van het Heilig-Hart) is a Roman Catholic minor basilica and parish church in Brussels, Belgium.

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BBC News Online

BBC News Online is the website of BBC News, the division of the BBC responsible for newsgathering and production.

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Belgian Pontifical College

The Belgian Pontifical College (Belgisch Pauselijk College; Collège ecclésiastique belge; Pontificio Collegio Belga) in Rome is a Belgian Catholic educational institution.

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Belgium

Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe.

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Bruges

Bruges (Brugge; Brügge) is the capital and largest city of the province of West Flanders in the Flemish Region of Belgium, in the northwest of the country.

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Brussels International Catholic School

Brussels International Catholic School (BICS) is an independent pre-primary through secondary school, located in Brussels, Belgium.

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Byzantine Rite

The Byzantine Rite, also known as the Greek Rite or the Rite of Constantinople, is a liturgical rite that is identified with the wide range of cultural, devotional, and canonical practices that developed in the Eastern Christian church of Constantinople.

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Cathedral of Our Lady (Antwerp)

The Cathedral of Our Lady (Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekathedraal) is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Antwerp, Belgium.

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Cathedral of St. Michael and St. Gudula

The Cathedral of St.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

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Catholic Church by country

The Catholic Church is "the Catholic Communion of Churches, both Roman and Eastern, or Oriental, that are in full communion with the Bishop of Rome (the pope)." The church is also known by members as the People of God, the Body of Christ, the "Temple of the Holy Spirit", among other names.

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Catholic Church sexual abuse cases

There have been many cases of sexual abuse of children by priests, nuns, and other members of religious life in the Catholic Church.

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Catholic University of Leuven (1834–1968)

The Catholic University of Leuven or Louvain (Université catholique de Louvain, Katholieke Hogeschool te Leuven, later Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven) was founded in 1834 in Mechelen as the Catholic University of Belgium, and moved its seat to the town of Leuven in 1835, changing its name to Catholic University of Leuven.

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Chaldean Catholic Church

The Chaldean Catholic Church is an Eastern Catholic particular church (sui iuris) in full communion with the Holy See and the rest of the Catholic Church, and is headed by the Chaldean Patriarchate.

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Charles Jean de la Vallée Poussin

Charles-Jean Étienne Gustave Nicolas, baron de la Vallée Poussin (14 August 1866 – 2 March 1962) was a Belgian mathematician.

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Christian de Duve

Christian René Marie Joseph, Viscount de Duve (2 October 1917 – 4 May 2013) was a Nobel Prize-winning Belgian cytologist and biochemist.

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Collège Matteo Ricci

Matteo Ricci College (French: Collège Matteo Ricci) is a Mixed Catholic secondary school in Anderlecht, Brussels, Belgium.

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Collège Notre-Dame de la Paix

Collège Notre-Dame de la Paix is a mixed Catholic primary and secondary school in Erpent, Namur, Belgium.

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Collège Saint-François-Xavier

Collège Saint-François-Xavier is a prestigious mixed Catholic secondary school in Verviers, Belgium.

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Collège Saint-Paul (Godinne)

The Collège Saint-Paul was an educational institution located in Godinne, a village near Namur (Belgium) that merged with a neighboring school, the Collège de Burnot.

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Collège Saint-Servais (Liège)

The Collège Saint-Servais is a Catholic school in Liège (Belgium).

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Collège Saint-Stanislas

Collège Saint-Stanislas is a mixed Catholic secondary school in Mons, Belgium.

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De Morgen

De Morgen (Dutch for The Morning) is a Flemish newspaper with a circulation of 53,860.

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Deacon

A deacon is a member of the diaconate, an office in Christian churches that is generally associated with service of some kind, but which varies among theological and denominational traditions.

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Eastern Catholic Churches

The Eastern Catholic Churches or Oriental Catholic Churches, also called the Eastern-Rite Catholic Churches, Eastern Rite Catholicism, or simply the Eastern Churches, are 23 Eastern Christian autonomous (sui iuris) particular churches of the Catholic Church, in full communion with the Pope in Rome.

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Episcopal Conference of Belgium

The Belgian Bishops' Conference or the Episcopal Conference of Belgium (Belgische Bisschoppenconferentie; Conférence épiscopale de Belgique; Belgische Bischofskonferenz) is the permanent organ of the Roman Catholic bishops in Belgium.

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European Commission

The European Commission (EC) is the primary executive arm of the European Union (EU).

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European Data Portal

On April 21, 2021 data.europa.eu was launched as a single access point for open data published by EU Institutions, national portals of EU Member states and non-member states, as well as international organisations of predominantly European scope.

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European Union

The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe.

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Father Damien

Father Damien or Saint Damien of Molokai or Saint Damien De Veuster (Pater Damiaan or Heilige Damiaan van Molokai; 3 January 1840 – 15 April 1889), born Jozef De Veuster, was a Roman Catholic priest from Belgium and member of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, a missionary religious institute.

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Flône Abbey

Flône Abbey (Abbaye de Flône) is located on the left bank of the river Meuse at Flône (Amay), in the province of Liège, Wallonia, Belgium.

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Forced adoption of children through the Catholic Church in Belgium

The forced adoption of children through the Catholic Church in Belgium affected young pregnant women sent by their families to give birth in Catholic institutions, who had their children taken from them and then sold to families of reception.

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Gazet van Antwerpen

The (popularly named De Frut) is a Belgian newspaper in Antwerp and Flanders, published by Concentra.

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Georges Lemaître

Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître (17 July 1894 – 20 June 1966) was a Belgian Catholic priest, theoretical physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and professor of physics at the Catholic University of Louvain.

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The GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences is the largest German infrastructure institute for the social sciences.

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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.

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Heilige Drievuldigheidscollege

Heilige-Drievuldigheidscollege or the "Holy Trinity College Preparatory School" is a school in the city of Leuven in the Flemish Brabant province of Belgium.

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Jesuits

The Society of Jesus (Societas Iesu; abbreviation: SJ), also known as the Jesuit Order or the Jesuits (Iesuitae), is a religious order of clerics regular of pontifical right for men in the Catholic Church headquartered in Rome.

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Johan Bonny

Johan Jozef Bonny (born 10 July 1955) is a Belgian prelate of the Catholic Church who has been the bishop of Antwerp in Belgium since 2009.

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John of Ruysbroeck College, Laeken

John van Ruysbroeck College (Dutch, Jan-van-Ruusbroeckollege) is a Roman Catholic secondary school in Laeken.

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Jozef De Kesel

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KU Leuven

KU Leuven (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) is a Catholic research university in the city of Leuven, Belgium.

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Latin Church

The Latin Church (Ecclesia Latina) is the largest autonomous (sui iuris) particular church within the Catholic Church, whose members constitute the vast majority of the 1.3 billion Catholics.

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Le Soir

Le Soir is a French-language Belgian daily newspaper.

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Liège

Liège (Lîdje; Luik; Lüttich) is a city and municipality of Wallonia and the capital of the Belgian province of Liège.

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Liège Cathedral

Liège Cathedral, otherwise St.

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List of Catholic churches in Belgium

This is a list of Catholic churches in Belgium.

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List of Christian monasteries in Belgium

This is a list, as yet incomplete, of Christian religious houses, both extant and dissolved, in Belgium, for both men and women.

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Luc Terlinden

Luc Terlinden is a Belgian prelate of the Catholic Church, who has been Archbishop of Malines-Brussels and head of the Military Ordinariate of Belgium since September 2023.

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Mechelen

Mechelen (Malines; historically known as Mechlin in EnglishMechelen has been known in English as Mechlin, from where the adjective Mechlinian is derived. This name may still be used, especially in a traditional or historical context. The city's French name, Malines, had also been used in English in the past (in the 19th and 20th centuries); however, this has largely been abandoned.

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Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prizes (Nobelpriset; Nobelprisen) are five separate prizes awarded to those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind, as established by the 1895 will of Swedish chemist, engineer, and industrialist Alfred Nobel, in the year before he died.

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Otto von Habsburg

Otto von Habsburg (Franz Joseph Otto Robert Maria Anton Karl Max Heinrich Sixtus Xaver Felix Renatus Ludwig Gaetan Pius Ignatius, Ferenc József Ottó Róbert Mária Antal Károly Max Heinrich Sixtus Xaver Felix Renatus Lajos Gaetan Pius Ignác; 20 November 1912 4 July 2011) was the last crown prince of Austria-Hungary from 1916 until the dissolution of the empire in November 1918.

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Our Lady College, Antwerp

Our Lady College (Onze-Lieve-Vrouwecollege) is a private Catholic primary and secondary school in Antwerp, Belgium.

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Petro Holiney

Bishop Petro Holiney (Петро Голіней; born 12 July 1973) is a Ukrainian Greek Catholic hierarch, who serves as Titular Bishop of Abrittum and Auxiliary Bishop of the Eparchy of Kolomyia since 12 July 2023.

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Pew Research Center

The Pew Research Center (also simply known as Pew) is a nonpartisan American think tank based in Washington, D.C. It provides information on social issues, public opinion, and demographic trends shaping the United States and the world.

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Pope

The pope (papa, from lit) is the bishop of Rome and the visible head of the worldwide Catholic Church.

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Pope Francis

Pope Francis (Franciscus; Francesco; Francisco; born Jorge Mario Bergoglio; 17 December 1936) is head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State.

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Primate (bishop)

Primate is a title or rank bestowed on some important archbishops in certain Christian churches.

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Religion in Belgium

Christianity is the largest religion in Belgium, with the Catholic Church representing the largest community, though it has experienced a significant decline since the 1950s (when it was the nominal religion of over 80% of the population).

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Roger Vangheluwe

Roger Joseph Vangheluwe (born 7 November 1936) is a former prelate of the Catholic Church who was Bishop of Bruges from 1985 to 2010 when he resigned after admitting that while he was a priest and a bishop he had sexual relations over 15 years with his nephew, who was a minor.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_in_Belgium

Also known as Belgian Catholics, Belgian Roman Catholic, Catholic sexual abuse cases in Belgium, Catholicism in Belgium, Roman Catholicism in Belgium, Roman Catholics in Belgium.

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