Vatican appoints Archbishop Yoo Heung-shik as Cardinal... 4th in Korean Catholic history (comprehensive)
Seong-Hoon Jeon Input 2022. 05. 29. 20:07 Edited 2022. 05. 30.
Archbishop Yoo Heung-sik, appointed as a cardinal (Vatican City = Yonhap News) Correspondent Jeon Seong-hoon = Archbishop Yoo Heung-sik preaching at the Mass to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Father Andrea Sung Kim Dae-gun, consecrated in St. Peter's Basilica on August 21 (local time), Vatican City. 2022.5.29. lucho@yna.co.kr
(Vatican = Yonhap News) Correspondent Jeon Seong-hoon = Archbishop Heung-shik Yoo, 70, who is the Minister of the Holy See, has been appointed a cardinal.
Pope Francis announced the list of 21 new cardinals, including the archbishop of Judea, after conducting the Sunday prayer at the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican on the 29th (local time).
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With this, Archbishop Yu became the fourth cardinal in the history of the Catholic Church in Korea. It has only been about 11 months since he was appointed Pontifical Minister.
The Catholic Church of Korea produced the deceased Cardinals Suhwan Kim (1922-2009), Nicholas Jeong Jin-seok (1931-2021), and Andrea Yeom Su-jeong (78), who died.
It is evaluated that the status of the Catholic Church in Korea has risen even further in that, while all of the cardinals appointed so far are from the Archdiocese of Seoul, this time, for the first time, a Cardinal of the Holy See from a non-Seoul Archbishop was born.
Born in Nonsan, Chungcheongnam-do in 1951, the new Cardinal Yu received a bachelor's degree and master's and doctoral degrees in dogmatic theology from Laterano University in Rome, Italy in 1979, and was ordained a priest there.
Afterwards, he served as chief aide in Daeheung-dong, Daejeon, director of Solmoe Holy Land retreat, director of Daejeon Catholic Education Center, director of pastoral care in Daejeon Diocese, professor and president of Daejeon Catholic University, and was ordained a bishop in 2003.
Since 2005, he has served as the diocesan bishop of Daejeon, and in June of last year, he was selected as the Minister of the Holy See, who oversees the affairs and life of priests and deacons around the world.
It was the first time in the history of the Catholic Church in Korea, as well as the history of the Holy See, that a Korean clergy was appointed as a minister.
The appointment of a cardinal by the Archbishop of Judas has been predicted early since the ministers of the nine congregations, the administrative organs of the Vatican, have traditionally been held by cardinals.
The new Cardinal Yoo is considered one of the few Korean clergy who communicate very closely with Pope Francis.
Pope Francis' visit to Korea in August 2014 was also triggered by a letter from the new Cardinal Yu requesting participation in the Asian Youth Congress, which was scheduled to be held at Solmoe Holy Land in Dangjin, Chungcheongnam-do.
After that, he was known to have personally visited the Pope at the Vatican from time to time to discuss major issues of Catholicism in Korea.
Cardinals are the highest rank in the hierarchy of the Catholic Church after the Pope.
He assists the Pope and serves to keep the church running smoothly. The College of Cardinals, to which all cardinals around the world belong, is the highest advisory body to the Pope under canon law.
Cardinals under the age of 80 have one vote in the Conclave in the event of the Pope's death.
Both Cardinal Yeom Su-jeong, who was appointed by Pope Francis in 2014, and New Cardinal Yu, have the right to vote.
The Council of Cardinals presided over by the Pope, which will also include the inauguration of 21 new cardinals, will be held at the Vatican on August 27.