Stephen Kim Sou-hwan

Infobox Korean name
hangul=김수환
hanja=金壽煥
rr=Gim Su-hwan
mr=Kim Suhwaninfobox cardinalstyles
cardinal name=Stephen Kim Sou-hwan
dipstyle=His Eminence
offstyle=Your Eminence
relstyle=Cardinal
See=Seoul (Emeritus)
deathstyle=not applicable

Stephen Kim Sou-hwan (born May 8 1922) is a senior Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and the former Archbishop of Seoul, South Korea.

He was born in Daegu, modern-day South Korea, and attended high school in Seoul. He studied philosophy at Sophia University in Tokyo from 1941 to 1944, and at Catholic University of Korea in Seoul from 1947 to 1951, when he graduated. After serving briefly as a parish priest in Andong and then as a secretary in the Archdiocese of Daegu, he traveled to Germany to study sociology at Münster University from 1956 to 1963.

Kim was raised to the rank of Cardinal by Pope Paul VI in the consistory of April 28, 1969, having become the Archbishop of Seoul in 1968 after being the Bishop of Masan since 1966. At the age of 46, he was the youngest member of the College of Cardinals at that time. He received the Mugunghwa medal in 1970, and participated in the two conclaves of 1978.

In 1998, Cardinal Kim retired as the Archbishop of Seoul, shortly after serving as President-Delegate of the Special Assembly for Asia of the World Synod of Bishops. On the death of Franz Koenig in 2004, he became the senior member of the College in terms of service, as he was the first of the three surviving members elevated in 1969 on the list of that consistory. However, in the ceremonies of the sede vacante on the death of Pope John Paul II, the title of "protopresbyter" (Senior Cardinal Priest) to which Cardinal Kim was entitled was enjoyed by Eugenio de Araujo Sales, another 1969 cardinal who was Kim's junior as cardinal but senior as a priest and as a bishop, and discharged certain ceremonial duties of the office.

Having reached the age of 80 in 2002, he did not participate in the ensuing conclave as he was no longer eligible to vote in papal elections. At the Papal Inauguration of Pope Benedict XVI he did discharge the duties of the Cardinal "protopresbyter".

References

*cite web|url=http://people.naver.com/search/people_detail.nhn?id=3843|work=Naver People|title=김수환|accessdate=2007-06-09
*cite web|url=http://people.empas.com/people/info/ki/ms/kimsoohwan/|work=Empas People|title=김수환|accessdate=2007-06-09

External links

* [http://www.catholic-pages.com/hierarchy/cardinals_bio.asp?ref=13 catholic-pages bio of Stephen Kim Sou-hwan]

Persondata
NAME = Stephen Kim Sou-hwan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES = Kim Soo-hwan, 김수환
SHORT DESCRIPTION = South Korean Roman Catholic cardinal
DATE OF BIRTH = 1922-05-08
PLACE OF BIRTH = Daegu, Korea
DATE OF DEATH =
PLACE OF DEATH =