Stephen Kim Sou-hwan
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| Stephen Kim Sou-hwan | |
| Hangul | 김수환 |
|---|---|
| Hanja | 金壽煥 |
| Revised Romanization | Gim Su-hwan |
| McCune–Reischauer | Kim Suhwan |
| Styles of Stephen Kim Sou-hwan | |
|---|---|
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| Reference style | His Eminence |
| Spoken style | Your Eminence |
| Informal style | Cardinal |
| See | Seoul (Emeritus) |
Stephen Kim Sou-hwan (May 8, 1922 – February 16, 2009) was 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.
He died on February 16 2009 6:12pm, at the age of 86.