Philippe Albert Joseph Stevens

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. He was a member of the Little Brothers of the Gospel.

Biography Born on 30 March 1937 in Quaregnon, Stevens was the seventh child in a family of nine children. 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. In 1994, de Bernon retired and was succeeded by Stevens on 11 November of that year. During his time as Bishop, he was dedicated to interreligious dialogue between Christians and Muslims.

Stevens died on 7 December 2021, at the age of 84.