Welcome, and thank you for visiting Our Lady of Mercy Parish online. We hope that our website highlights the wide variety of worship, fellowship and service opportunities available. Please feel free to read more about our church on this site, or come in for a visit. We would love to greet you and share with you our love for Jesus Christ and for you, our neighbour.

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The oldest English-speaking Catholic parish in Belgium was established by Cardinal Leon Joseph Suenens ,
Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Mechelen-Brussels who requested of The American College Seminary of Louvain
(Leuven) Rector Msgr. Paul Riedl, to take over the pastoral responsibilities for the English speaking in the
Brussels area on the Fourth of December 1965.

Official status was given to the parish on 4 December 1965 when Fr. Albion Bulger, Vice-Rector of the College, was appointed as the first pastor. Subsequently, in order to accord the parish a legal existence, Our Lady of Mercy ASBL was formally founded by the publication of its constitution on 9 May, 1968. Members of this legal organisation are the trustees of the parish.

After 154 years this, the oldest Seminary in Europe, was closed June 2011 by Bishops in the USA. A great shock and loss to all and especially to us as Our Lady of Mercy was a Training Ground for Seminarians coming over to study in Belgium.