{{Infobox Christian leader | type = Cardinal | honorific-prefix = His Eminence | name = Jozef De Kesel | honorific-suffix = | title = Cardinal, Archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels Primate of Belgium | image = Monseigneur De Kesel à la basilique Saint-Martin de Liège.jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = | church = Roman Catholic Church | archdiocese = Mechelen-Brussels | province = | metropolis = | diocese = | see = | appointed = 6 November 2015 | term_start = 12 December 2015 | term_end = | quashed = | predecessor = André-Joseph Léonard | successor = | opposed = | other_post = Cardinal-Priest of Ss. Giovanni e Paolo | previous_post = | ordination = 26 August 1972 | ordained_by = Leo-Karel Jozef De Kesel | consecration = 26 May 2002 | consecrated_by = Godfried Danneels | cardinal = 19 November 2016 | created_cardinal_by = Pope Francis | rank = Cardinal-Priest | birth_name = | birth_date = | birth_place = Ghent, Belgium | death_date = | death_place = | buried = | resting_place_coordinates = | nationality = | religion = | residence = | parents = | spouse = | children = | occupation = | profession = | education = | alma_mater = Catholic University of Leuven Pontifical Gregorian University | motto = "Vobiscum Christianus"(With you, I am a Christian) | signature = | signature_alt = | coat_of_arms = Coat of arms of Jozef De Kesel.svg | coat_of_arms_alt = }} Jozef De Kesel (born 17 June 1947) is a Belgian prelate of the Catholic Church who has been a cardinal since 2016 and Archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels since 2015. He served as Bishop of Bruges from 2010 to 2015. Early life De Kesel was born in 1947 in Ghent. He entered the seminary in 1965, studied philosophy and theology at the seminary of Saint-Paul in Ghent and received his degree in Philosophy and Letters at the Catholic University of Leuven. From 1968 until 1972 he studied theology in Rome at the Pontifical Gregorian University, he gained first his license and then in 1977 his doctorate. He was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Ghent on 26 August 1972 by his uncle Leo, who served as auxiliary bishop of Ghent. While in Ghent he taught Religious Education at the diocesan secondary school in Eeklo (1974–1980), and provided courses in Religion, Philosophical Anthropology and Contemporary Thought at a