[2] In 1995, the Province of Brabant was later split into three areas: The Church did not form new dioceses to fit with this; instead, three vicariates general were created, with their own auxiliary bishop, to accommodate the three regional entities.

Cambrai was already in France and its kings managed gradually to annex French Flanders, and Utrecht and its suffragans in the Dutch republic (later kingdom) would long have their hierarchy suspended because the northern state was a champion of "anti-papist" Calvinism.

On the same day, the Diocese of Antwerp was created from areas previously administered by the Archdiocese of Mechelen.

Archbishop André-Joseph Leonard succeeded Cardinal Danneels in January 2010.

On 22 February 2011, Pope Benedict XVI appointed Fr.

In the autumn of 2015 Pope Francis appointed the bishop of Bruges, Jozef De Kesel, as the new archbishop, who was created Cardinal in 2016.