Jean-Pierre Delville (born 29 April 1951) is a Belgian prelate of the Catholic Church who has been the Bishop of Liège since 2013.

His earlier career was devoted to church history and teaching, which he always combined with pastoral activity.

[5] He was first editor and then director of the Revue d'histoire ecclésiastique at the Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve and authored numerous articles for that journal.

[3] In 2010, assessing the response to the clerical sex abuse crisis, he said that in Belgium a widely publicized unrelated case of sexual abuse and murder[c] was "an enormous catalyst" that "had immediate repercussions within the Catholic Church" resulting in several prosecutions.

He thought the scandals could produce a revitalized Church: "I think a new moral conscience is emerging and that it can allow a real purification.

He has formed other alliances with Muslim leaders, for example to lobby against the abolition of religious education in schools.

[1] In August 2018, after being robbed in his residence, he said his feelings were more those of understanding than forgiveness in that he had been confronting people whose "background is problematic".