List of the Archbishops of Mechelen
The following people were Archbishops of the Archdiocese of Mechelen-Brussels and Primasse of Belgium :
- Cardinal Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle (1561–1582)
- Johannes Hauchin (1583–1589)
- Cardinal William Allen (1589–1594)
- vacant
- Mathias Hovius (1596-1620)
- Jacobus Boonen (1621–1655)
- Andreas Cruesen (1657–1666)
- Joannes Wachtendonck (1667–1668)
- Alphonsus de Berghes (1670–1689) ( House of Glymes )
- Humbertus Guilielmus de Precipiano (1690-1711)
- vacant
- Cardinal Thomas Philipp Volrad de Hénin-Liétard dit d'Alsace de Boussu , 1714 Elekt, 1716 Archbishop, 1719 Cardinal, † 1759
- Cardinal Johann Heinrich von Frankenberg (1759–1801)
- Joannes-Armandus de Bessuéjouls de Roquelaure (1802-1809)
- Dominique Dufour de Pradt (1809-1815)
- Franciscus-Antonius de Méan (1817–1831)
- Cardinal Engelbert Sterckx (1832–1867)
- Cardinal Victor-Augustin-Isidore Dechamps (1867-1883)
- Cardinal Petrus-Lambertus Goossens (1884–1906)
- Cardinal Désiré-Joseph Mercier (1906–1926)
- Cardinal Jozef-Ernest Van Roey (1926–1961)
- Cardinal Léon-Joseph Suenens (1962–1980)
- Cardinal Godfried Danneels (1980-2010)
- André-Joseph Léonard (2010-2015)
- Cardinal Jozef De Kesel (since 2015)