Hello! My name is Deacon Chris Stevens, and I’m the Catholic Chaplain to Loughborough University.

Originally from Long Eaton, after sixty odd years I’m finally back in the Town of my birth. I went to Huddersfield University studying computers and after teacher training went into Lecturing in Computer Systems Hardware, and Networking Systems at various Colleges in Yorkshire for 24 years.

After a period of discernment, I trained for the Permanent Diaconate at Hinsley Hall in Leeds, and served as a Chaplain to Bretton College, Assisting the Chaplain at Leeds and Leeds Beckett University, Chaplain to Leeds Trinity University along with ministering to parishes in West Yorkshire. I am currently the Catholic Chaplain here at Loughborough University, now in my 6^th year here. I enjoy trying to bring the real presence of God to all faiths and none in the University setting.

I’m a Featherstone Rovers rugby league supporter, and have been for over twenty years, and get to their matches as often as I can. I do a weekly 5Km Parkrun (best time at the moment of just over 34 mins) and try unsuccessfully to keep age at bay.

Apart from that, I’m a Railway Enthusiast, being a life member of Worth Valley Railway, and building and exhibiting scale model railways around the country with a group of other like minding people.