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April 16, 2025
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Long-time Prince Albert Bishop Albert Thévenot passed away April 13. He was 79.
Bishop Thévenot’s life was one dedicated to missionary service, pastoral care and evangelization. He entered the Society of the Missionaries of Africa as a teen in 1964 and made his first profession of vows June 19, 1967. His perpetual vows followed on Aug. 7 1975 and he was ordained to the priesthood on Aug. 2, 1980.
Much of his early career was spent overseas, where from 1973-76 he taught at the Minor Seminary of Katie in Tanzania. He went on to study theology in London, England before his ordination, and would then return to Tanzania as associate pastor of Bushangaro Parish, later serving at the Tabora Student Centre from 1982-85. Returning to Canada, the spent the next seven years promoting missionary vocations in western Canada before resuming his ministry in 1992 as a pastor in the Diocese of Tabora, Tanzania.
Bishop Thévenot would go on to leadership roles within his order, serving as assistant general on the General Council in Rome, and in 2006 being appointed provincial superior of the North American province of the Missionaries of Africa.
The native of Somerset, Man., was appointed by Pope Benedict XVI as Bishop of Prince Albert in Saskatchewan Aug. 6, 2008, and would serve the diocese until his resignation was accepted by Pope Francis March 25, 2021.
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