Stephen Naidoo,

C.Ss.R. The Redemptorists officially named the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer ( la, links=no, Congregatio Sanctissimi Redemptoris), abbreviated CSsR,is a Catholic clerical religious congregation of pontifical right for men (priests and brother ...

(29 October 1937 – 1 July 1989), was a South African

Redemptorist The Redemptorists officially named the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer ( la, links=no, Congregatio Sanctissimi Redemptoris), abbreviated CSsR,is a Catholic clerical religious congregation of pontifical right for men (priests and brother ...

and archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church. Archbishop of Cape Town from 1984 to 1989.

Biography

Born in 1937 in

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in an

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n immigrated family, Naidoo was ordained Redemptorist priest in 1961 and graduated at

Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas A pontifical ( la, pontificale) is a Christian liturgical book containing the liturgies that only a bishop may perform. Among the liturgies are those of the ordinal for the ordination and consecration of deacons, priests, and bishops to Holy O ...

. Consecrated auxiliary-bishop of

on 15 September 1974, he became archbishop on 20 October 1984. In 1988 he was imprisoned because of his ideas against

apartheid Apartheid (, especially South African English: , ; , "aparthood") was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia) from 1948 to the early 1990s. Apartheid was ...

. He died on 1 July 1989.

References

1937 births 1989 deaths Roman Catholic anti-apartheid activists 20th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in South Africa Opposition to apartheid in South Africa Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas alumni People from Cape Town South African people of Indian descent Redemptorist bishops Roman Catholic archbishops of Cape Town {{Africa-RC-archbishop-stub