Stephen Kim Sou-hwan

Korean spelling
Hangeul	김수환
Hanja	金壽煥
Revised Romanization	Gim Su-hwan
McCune- Reischauer	Kim Su-hwan
See also : Korean name

Stephen Cardinal Kim Sou-hwan (born May 8, 1922 in Daegu , Korea , † February 16, 2009 in Seoul ) was Archbishop of Seoul .

Cardinal coat of arms by Stephen Kim Sou-hwan

Life

Stephen Kim Sou-hwan studied in Daegu and Tokyo the subjects philosophy and Catholic theology and received on 27 October 1947, the sacrament of Holy Orders . He then became the personal secretary of the Bishop of Tae Gu and parish chaplain . In addition, he directed the publication of the diocesan church newspaper. At the end of the fifties he studied Christian social sciences for a few semesters with Joseph Höffner, who later became Cardinal of Cologne.

In 1966 Pope Paul VI appointed him . to the Bishop of Masan . The episcopal ordination received his Archbishop Antonio del Giudice , Apostolic Nuncio in Korea, on 31 May 1966; Co - consecrators were John Baptist Sye Bong-Kil , Archbishop of Daegu , and John A. Choi Jae-seon , Bishop of Pusan . In 1968 he was appointed Archbishop of Seoul.

On 28 April the following year Stephen Kim Sou-hwan was as a cardinal priest with the titular church of San Felice da Cantalice a Centocelle in the College of Cardinals received. He was the first cardinal of South Korea.

In 1986, Kim became a major supporter of the South Korean democracy movement. The Seoul Cathedral was the meeting place for protesters against the Chun government and offered asylum to oppositionists. Even after the peaceful transfer of power in 1988, Kim continued to campaign for human rights in South Korea.

In 1998 his resignation from the office of Archbishop of Seoul was granted by Pope John Paul II . After the death of Franz König in 2004, Stephen Kim Sou-hwan became the longest serving cardinal priest and thus his successor as cardinal proto-priest .

At the 2005 conclave , in which Pope Benedict XVI. was elected, he did not take part because at that time he had already exceeded the maximum age of 80 years for active papal election . At the end of his life he was the longest serving cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church.

South Korean Prime Minister Han Seung-soo and the ambassadors of numerous countries took part in the funeral mass on February 20, 2009 . The main celebrant in Seoul Cathedral was, at the request of the Vatican, Nicholas Cardinal Cheong Jin-suk .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kyiv Post: South Korea cardinal who fought for democracy dies ( Memento of April 12, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) of February 16, 2009.
2. ↑ Vatican Radio: South Korea: Last greetings for Cardinal Kim , asianews of February 20, 2009.

Web links

• Entry for Stephen Kim Sou-hwan on catholic-hierarchy.org
• “Cardinal Stephen Kim, 86, South Korea democracy advocate, dies” ( February 21, 2009 memento on the Internet Archive ), Reuters in the International Herald Tribune , February 16, 2009

predecessor	Office	successor
---	Bishop of Masan 1966–1968	Joseph Byeong Hwa Chang
Paul Marie Kinam Ro	Archbishop of Seoul 1968–1998	Nicholas Cardinal Cheong Jin-suk
Franz King	Cardinal proto-priest 2004-2009	Eugênio de Araújo Sales

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Kim is the family name here, Stephen Sou-hwan is the first name.