Military Ordinariate of Belgium

The Belgian Military Ordinariate is a Military Ordinariate in Belgium and responsible for the Belgian Armed Forces.

History

The Military Ordinariate in the Kingdom of Belgium serves members of the Belgian Armed Forces Catholic religious affiliation pastoral. It was Pope Pius XII. established on 7 September 1957. After a mutual decision between the Holy See and the Kingdom of Belgium, the seat of the Belgian Military Ordinariate in Brussels. From the announcement of the Papal Bull of September 7, 1957, first as a military vicariate, the Archbishop of Malines, Cardinal Jozef -Ernest van Roey, as Vicar Apostolic of Belgium (military ) was inaugurated. The Office of the Military Bishop had always held the Archbishop of Mechelen Mechelen -Brussels later.