The co-cathedral of Saints Michael and Gudula (official Latin name: concathedralis SS. Michaelis and Gudulae Bruxellis; French: cathédrale Saints-Michel-et-Gudule; in Dutch: kathedraal van Sint-Michiel en Sint-Goedele; in German: kathedrale St . Michael und St. Gudula) has been co-cathedral of the archdiocese of Malines-Brussels since 1961 and the main Catholic place of worship in Brussels.
Around the year 1000 a chapel already dedicated to St. Michael stood in this place. Here was the most important point of Brussels at the time, the crossroads of the two major roads of the region that had given birth to the same city: the road connecting Flanders and Cologne, and that between Antwerp and Mons, then France.
In 1047 Lambert II, count of Louvain, and his wife Oda of Verdun, enlarged the building and founded a Chapter of 12 canons, conferring it the title of collegiate. In addition, the relics of Saint Gudula, until then kept in the church of Saint-Géry (which stood, until the destruction of the French revolutionaries, in the place of the current Halles Saint-Géry) and the official name that associated the cult of these two saints.
Co-cathedral of San Michele and Santa Gudula
Address: Place Sainte-Gudule, 1000
Phone: +3222178345
Site:
https://cathedralisbruxellensis.be/Location inserted by
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