Honorific Prefix: | His Excellency, the Most Reverend |
Philippe Stevens | |
Honorific Suffix: | PFE |
Bishop of Maroua-Mokolo | |
Archdiocese: | Garoua |
Diocese: | Maroua-Mokolo |
Appointed: | --> |
Term Start: | 11 November 1994 |
Term End: | 5 April 2014 |
Retired: | --> |
Predecessor: | Jacques de Bernon |
Ordination: | 13 July 1980 |
Ordained By: | Jacques de Bernon |
Consecration: | 15 January 1995 |
Birth Name: | Philippe Albert Joseph Stevens |
Birth Date: | 30 March 1937 |
Birth Place: | Quaregnon, Belgium |
Death Place: | Nyons, France |
Tomb: | --> |
Nationality: | Belgian |
Philippe Albert Joseph Stevens, PFE (30 March 1937 – 7 December 2021) was a Belgian Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Maroua-Makolo from 1994 to 2014.[1] He was a member of the Little Brothers of the Gospel.
Born on 30 March 1937 in Quaregnon, Stevens was the seventh child in a family of nine children.[2] Raised as a devout Catholic, he attended the Catholic University of Leuven. He earned a degree in philosophy in 1965 and three years later joined the Little Brothers of the Gospel. In the 1960s, he arrived in Cameroon, starting in, where he became a missionary under the leadership of . He was then ordained a priest on 13 July 1980 by Jacques de Bernon, who was then Bishop of Maroua-Makolo.[3] In 1994, de Bernon retired and was succeeded by Stevens on 11 November of that year.[3] He was consecrated on 15 January 1995 by .[2] On 5 April 2014, Pope Francis accepted his resignation on the grounds of age.[4] During his time as Bishop, he was dedicated to interreligious dialogue between Christians and Muslims.[5]
Stevens died on 7 December 2021, at the age of 84.[6]