2010 in Belgium

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Events in the year 2010 in Belgium .

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Bobbejaan Schoepen was a Flemish pioneer in Belgian pop music, vaudeville, and European country music. Schoepen was a versatile entertainer, entrepreneur, singer-songwriter, guitarist, comedian, actor, and professional whistler, as well as the founder and former director of the amusement park Bobbejaanland. His musical career flourished from 1948 until the first half of the 1970s. He sold more than five million copies from his repertoire of 482 songs, which extended from Twang, cabaret, instrumental film music, chansons, country, to folk and vocal music. Born in Boom, Antwerp, Flanders, Belgium, he worked his way up from a working-class environment to become one of the 200 richest people in Belgium.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Yves Leterme</span> Belgian politician

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Godfried Danneels</span> Belgian Roman Catholic Church cardinal

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Catholic Church in Belgium</span>

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Roman Catholic Diocese of Namur</span> Catholic ecclesiastical territory in Belgium

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">André-Joseph Léonard</span> Belgian Catholic archbishop (born 1940)

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Leterme II Government</span> Belgian federal government in 2009 and 2010

The Leterme II Government was the federal government of Belgium from 25 November 2009 to 26 April 2010, and the caretaker government until 6 December 2011. It took office when the Flemish Christian Democrat Yves Leterme (CD&V) was sworn in as Prime Minister. It followed the Van Rompuy I Government which ended when Herman Van Rompuy became the first President of the European Council. It comprised five parties: the Dutch-speaking Christian Democratic and Flemish (CD&V), the Dutch-speaking Open Flemish Liberals and Democrats, the French-speaking liberal Reformist Movement (MR), the French-speaking Socialist Party (PS) and the French-speaking Humanist Democratic Centre (CDH).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Rémy Vancottem</span>

Rémy Victor Vancottem was the bishop of Namur. He had previously served as an auxiliary bishop of Mechelen-Brussels.

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jozef De Kesel</span> Belgian Roman Catholic bishop

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Episcopal Conference of Belgium</span> Assembly of Catholic bishops

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mechelen–Brussels</span> Latin Catholic ecclesiastical territory in Belgium

The Archdiocese of Mechelen–Brussels is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Belgium. It is the primatial see of Belgium and the centre of the ecclesiastical province governed by the Archbishop of Mechelen–Brussels, which covers the whole of Belgium. It was formed in 1559 and the bishop has a seat in two cathedrals, St. Rumbold's Cathedral in Mechelen and the Cathedral of St. Michael and St. Gudula in Brussels. The current archbishop is Luc Terlinden, who was installed in September 2023.

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Unizibira was an ancient town and bishopric in Roman North Africa which remains a Latin Catholic titular see.

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