Léonce-Albert Van Peteghem

His Excellency Léonce-Albert Van Peteghem
Episc. Gandavense
Diocese	Ghent
See	St Bavo's
In office	1964 -1991
Successor	Arthur Luysterman
Orders
Consecration	29 June 1964 by Cardinal Suenens
Personal details
Buried	Gent
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Léonce-Albert Van Peteghem (7 October 1916 – 7 January 2004) was a Belgian Roman Catholic Bishop. He served as the twenty-eighth Bishop of Gent between 1964 and 1991: it was an unusually long incumbency.

Van Peteghem was born a short distance to the north of Ghent, the youngest of his parents' twelve children. His parents were farm workers. He spent some of his childhood in nearby Lochristi after his parents relocated to obtain work, and more of it in De Pinte (still in East Flanders) for the same reason. He received a Classics and Humanities focused education at Sint-Lievenscollege in Ghent, before undertaking higher level studies at the Seminary in Ghent and at the Catholic (Dutch language) University of Leuven.

He was ordained into the priesthood on 18 August 1940. He obtained a diploma as a Licentiate in Theology from Leuven in 1943. On 11 September 1943 he was appointed to a professorship in Fundamental Moral Theology at the Main Seminary in Ghent, and it was here that in 1956 he was appointed "Geestelijk Directeur" (literally"Spiritual Director").

During the war years, from 1943 till 1945, he was also employed as sub-regent at the in Leuven. On 31 January 1956 he became a canon of St Bavo's Chapter in Ghent. On 22 January 1960 he became an ecclesiastical judge in the Bishopric of Ghent, and he was appointed diocesan Vicar general by a year later.

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