About Stephen Naidoo
Lived 1937 – 1989 (aged 51). Stephen Naidoo was a South African catholic priest and catholic bishop.
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. In 1988 he was imprisoned because of his ideas against apartheid.
He died on 1 July 1989.
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Who was Stephen Naidoo?
Catholic bishop (1937–1989)
When was Stephen Naidoo born?
Stephen Naidoo was born on 23 October 1937 in Cape Town.
When did Stephen Naidoo die?
Stephen Naidoo died on 1 July 1989 in Cape Town.
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Stephen Naidoo was a catholic priest and catholic bishop.
What nationality was Stephen Naidoo?
Stephen Naidoo was South African.
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