Stephen Kim Sou-hwan
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His Eminence Stephen Kim Sou-hwan |
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| Cardinal, Archbishop emeritus of Seoul | |
| See | Archdiocese of Seoul |
| Predecessor | Paul Roh Ki-nam |
| Successor | Nicolas Cheong Jin-suk |
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| Created Cardinal | April 28, 1969 by Pope Paul VI |
| Rank | Cardinal-priest |
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| Born |
July 2, 1922 Daegu, Japanese Korea |
| Died | February 16, 2009 (aged 86) Seoul, South Korea |
| Nationality | Korean |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
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| Stephen Kim Sou-hwan | |
| Hangul | 김수환 |
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| Hanja | 金壽煥 |
| Revised Romanization | Gim Su-hwan |
| McCune–Reischauer | Kim Suhwan |
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Styles of Stephen Cardinal Kim Sou-hwan |
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| Reference style | His Eminence |
| Spoken style | Your Eminence |
| Informal style | Cardinal |
| See | Seoul (Emeritus) |
Stephen (often rendered as Latin Stephanus) Kim Sou-hwan (July 2, 1922 – February 16, 2009) was a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and the former Archbishop of Seoul, South Korea. Having been an iconic figure in South Korea's bloody and tumultuous transition from military rule to democracy, he was widely respected across all sections in South Korean society.
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-Priest of 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.
During Park Chung-hee and his successor's military dictatorship of the 70s and the 80s, the Korean Catholic Church under Kim's leadership was highlighted as a focal point of South Korea's democratization movement.
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 duties of protopresbyter (Senior Cardinal Priest) to which Cardinal Kim was entitled were carried out by Eugenio de Araujo Sales, another 1969 cardinal who was Kim's junior as cardinal but senior as a priest and as a bishop, because of Cardinal Kim's illness.
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