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. Dioceses There are eight dioceses, including one archdiocese, seat of the archiepiscopal residence and St. Rumbolds Cathedral, located in the old Flemish city of Mechelen (Malines in French). The Belgian church also oversees the Basilica of the Sacred Heart, the National Basilica of Belgium. In 2009, Cardinal André-Mutien Léonard was appointed new archbishop of Mecheln-Brussels and thus Belgium's new primate, but only after the 450th anniversary celebration of the Mechelen-Brussels archdiocese and the canonisation of Fr. Damien De Veuster of Molokai. Both events were led by Cardinal Godfried Danneels, his predecessor as Archbishop and Primate between 1979 and 2010. Before his appointment, Léonard was Bishop of Namur. Since 2015, the Archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels and primate of all Belgium is Jozef De Kesel. Education The Belgian church established the Catholic University of Louvain in 1834, nowadays split into the Université catholique de Louvain and the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (acronymic KU Leuven), which together comprise the largest university in Belgium. According to World University Ranking, KU Leuven is the best university in Belgium. The archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels is an ex officio member of the board of trustee in virtue of being the Grand Chancellor of both universities. Founded in Mechlin by the bishops of Belgium in 1834, the Catholic University moved to Leuven in 1835 to replace the State University of Leuven which was closed the same year. Some of its most notable graduates include Georges Lemaître, priest, astronomer, and proposer of the Big Bang theory, Otto von Habsburg, former head of the Habsburg family, Saint Alberto Hurtado, Chilean Jesuit priest who was canonised in 2005, Charles Jean de la Vallée-Poussin, mathematician who proved the prime number theorem, Christian de Duve, winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1974, among others. Catholic schools in Belgium include: Brussels International Catholic School Collège Matteo Ricci, Brussels Collège Notre-Dame de la Paix, Namur Collège Saint-Paul (Godinne) Collège Saint-Servais (Liège) Collège Saint-Stanislas, Mons Collège Saint-François-Xavier, Verviers Flône Abbey Heilige Drievuldigheidscollege John of Ruysbroeck College, Laeken Our Lady College, Antwerp Sint-Barbaracollege Sint-Hubertuscollege St John Berchmans College St Joseph College, Aalst St Joseph College, Turnhout Sint-Leocollege (Brugge) Sint-Lievenscollege Sint-Lodewijkscollege (Lokeren) St Michael College, Brussels Xaverius College Health care and Catholic hospitals Belgium has a mixed private