and Sint-Katelijne-Waver, and the municipality of Zwijndrecht, which belongs to the Diocese of Ghent. The abbeys and convents of Antwerp were long very famous centres of its religious life. In the twelfth century the Canons Regular of St. Norbert (Premonstratensians) founded the abbey of St. Michael, that would become one of the principal abbeys of the Low Countries, sheltered many royal guests, and eventually excited greed and persecution by reason of its wealth. The Cathedral of Antwerp was originally a small Premonstratensian shrine known familiarly as "Our Lady of the Stump." Many other religious orders found a shelter in Antwerp, Dominicans, Franciscans (1446), Carmelites (1494), Carthusians (1632), and female branches of the same. The Cistercians had two great abbeys, St. Sauveur, founded in 1451 by the devout merchant Peter Pot, and St. Bernard, about six miles from Antwerp, founded in 1233. List of bishops 1559–1798 1559–1568: vacant 1569–1576: Franciscus Sonnius (Frans van der Velde) 1576–1586: vacant 1586–1595: Laevinus Torrentius (Liévin van der Beken) 1597–1601: Guillaume de Berghes 1603–1611: Johannes Miraeus (Le Mire) 1611–1633: Johannes Malderus (Jan van Malderen) 1634–1651: Gaspard Nemius (Gaspard Van Den Bosch) 1652–1676: Ambrosius (or Marius) Capello 1677–1678: Aubertus van den Eede 1679–1699: Joannes Ferdinandus Van Beughem 1700–1706: Reginaldus Cools 1707–1727: Peter Josef de Francken-Sierstorff 1727–1742: Carolus d'Espinoza 1742–1744: Guilielmus Philippus de Herzelles 1746–1746: Josephus Werbrouck 1749–1758: Dominicus de Gentis 1758–1775: Hendrik Gabriel van Gameren 1776–1784: Jacob Thomas Jozef Wellens 1785–1798: Cornelius Franciscus Nelis 1961–current 1962–1977: 1977–1980: Godfried Danneels 1980–2009: Paul Van den Berghe 2009–current: Johan Bonny See also List of Roman Catholic dioceses in Belgium List of Catholic churches in Belgium References External links Newadvent.org Antwerp Christian organizations established in 1961 Roman Catholic dioceses and prelatures established in the 20th century 1961 establishments in Belgium