Type: | Archbishop |
Stephen Naidoo, C.Ss.R. | |
Honorific-Prefix: | His Excellency |
Archbishop of Cape Town | |
Church: | Roman Catholic Church |
Archdiocese: | Archbishop of Cape Town |
See: | Cape Town |
Term: | 20 October 1984 - 1 July 1989 |
Predecessor: | Owen McCann |
Ordination: | 29 June 1961 |
Consecration: | 15 September 1974 |
Consecrated By: | Owen McCann |
Birth Date: | 23 October 1937 |
Birth Place: | Cape Town |
Education: | Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas |
Death Place: | Cape Town |
Previous Post: | Monastery priest, teacher |
Coat Of Arms: | Archbishop CoA PioM.svg |
Nationality: | South Africa |
Stephen Naidoo, C.Ss.R. (29 October 1937 – 1 July 1989), was a South African Redemptorist and archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church. Archbishop of Cape Town from 1984 to 1989.[1]
Born in 1937 in Cape Town in an Indian immigrated family,[2] Naidoo was ordained Redemptorist priest in 1961 and graduated at Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas.
Consecrated auxiliary-bishop of Cape Town on 15 September 1974, he became archbishop on 20 October 1984. In 1988 he was imprisoned because of his ideas against apartheid.[3]
He died on 1 July 1989.