Church Roman Catholic Church Name Stephen Naidoo See Cape Town Predecessor Owen McCann | Nationality South African Ordination June 29, 1961 Coat of arms Consecration September 15, 1974 | |
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In office 20 October 1984 - 1 July 1989 Previous post Monastery priest, teacher Died 1989, Cape Town, South Africa Education Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas Archdiocese Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cape Town | ||
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.
Biography
Born in 1937 in Cape Town in an Indian immigrated family, 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. On 1988 he was imprisoned because of his ideas against apartheid.
He died on 1 July 1989.
References
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