Stephen Naidoo Explained

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]

Biography

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.

References

  1. News: Reuters. 1989-07-02. Stephen Naidoo, African Prelate, Dies at 51. en-US. The New York Times. 2022-02-09. 0362-4331.
  2. Web site: Naidoo, Stephen. 2022-02-09. Dictionary of African Christian Biography. en.
  3. News: 1989-07-03. The Most Rev. Stephen Naidoo, 51. Orlando Sentinel. https://web.archive.org/web/20171019221048/http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1989-07-03/news/8907030191_1_cape-town-churchmen-anglican-archbishop-desmond. 2017-10-19.