Bishops of South Korea

by Age

South Korea
Bishop Ordinaries of South Korea (41)AgeDate of
BirthAscending
Archbishop Victorinus Youn Kong-hi (101)Archbishop Victorinus Youn Kong-hi (์œค๊ณตํฌ ๋น…ํ† ๋ฆฌ๋…ธ / ๅฐนๆญ็†™) (101), Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Gwangju ๊ด‘์ฃผ (South Korea)1011924.11.08
Bishop Paul Kim Tchang-ryeol (99)Bishop Paul Kim Tchang-ryeol (๊น€์ฐฝ๋ ฌ ๋ฐ”์˜ค๋กœ / ้‡‘ๆ˜Œ็ƒˆ) (99), Bishop emeritus of Cheju ์ œ์ฃผ (South Korea)991927.01.25
Bishop Joseph Lee Han-taek, S.J. (91)Bishop Joseph Lee Han-taek (์ดํ•œํƒ ์š”์…‰ / ๆŽๆผขๆพค), S.J. (91), Bishop emeritus of Uijeongbu ์˜์ •๋ถ€ (South Korea)911934.12.05
Archbishop Andreas Choi Chang-mou (89)Archbishop Andreas Choi Chang-mou (์ตœ์ฐฝ๋ฌด ์•ˆ๋“œ๋ ˆ์•„ / ๅด”ๆ˜Œๆญฆ) (89), Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Gwangju ๊ด‘์ฃผ (South Korea)891936.09.15
Bishop James Kim Ji-seok (85)Bishop James Kim Ji-seok (๊น€์ง€์„ ์•ผ๊ณ ๋ณด / ้‡‘ๆ™บ้Œซ) (85), Bishop emeritus of Wonju ์›์ฃผ (South Korea)851940.07.27
Bishop Vincent Ri Pyung-ho (85)Bishop Vincent Ri Pyung-ho (์ด๋ณ‘ํ˜ธ ๋นˆ์ฒธ์‹œ์˜ค / ๆŽ็‚ณๆตฉ) (85), Bishop emeritus of Jeonju ์ „์ฃผ (South Korea)851941.03.10
Cardinal Andrew Yeom Soo-jung (82)Cardinal Andrew Yeom Soo-jung (์—ผ์ˆ˜์ • ์•ˆ๋“œ๋ ˆ์•„ / ๅป‰ๆด™ๆ”ฟ) (82), Cardinal-Priest of S. Crisogono, Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Seoul ์„œ์šธ (South Korea) and former Apostolic Administrator of Pyong-yang ํ‰์–‘ (North Korea)821943.12.05
Bishop Lucas Kim Woon-hoe (81)Bishop Lucas Kim Woon-hoe (๊น€์šดํšŒ ๋ฃจ๊ฐ€ / ้‡‘้›ฒๆœƒ) (81), Bishop emeritus of Chunchon ์ถ˜์ฒœ (South Korea) and former Apostolic Administrator of Hamhung ํ•จํฅ (North Korea)811944.10.18
Bishop Peter Kang U-il (80)Bishop Peter Kang U-il (๊ฐ•์šฐ์ผ ๋ฒ ๋“œ๋กœ / ๅงœ็ฆนไธ€) (80), Bishop emeritus of Cheju ์ œ์ฃผ (South Korea)801945.10.12
Bishop Francis Xavier Ahn Myong-ok (80)Bishop Francis Xavier Ahn Myong-ok (์•ˆ๋ช…์˜ฅ ํ”„๋ž€์น˜์Šค์ฝ” ํ•˜๋น„์—๋ฅด / ๅฎ‰ๆ˜Ž็މ) (80), Bishop emeritus of Masan ๋งˆ์‚ฐ (South Korea)801945.12.07
Bishop Gabriel Chang Bong-hun (79)Bishop Gabriel Chang Bong-hun (์žฅ๋ด‰ํ›ˆ ๊ฐ€๋ธŒ๋ฆฌ์—˜ / ๅผตๅณฐ่ป’) (79), Bishop emeritus of Cheongju ์ฒญ์ฃผ (South Korea)791947.01.04
Archbishop Hyginus Kim Hee-joong (79)Archbishop Hyginus Kim Hee-joong (๊น€ํฌ์ค‘ ํžˆ์ง€๋…ธ / ้‡‘็†™ไธญ) (79), Metropolitan Archbishop emeritus of Gwangju ๊ด‘์ฃผ (South Korea)791947.02.21
Bishop Peter Lee Ki-heon (78)Bishop Peter Lee Ki-heon (์ด๊ธฐํ—Œ ๋ฒ ๋“œ๋กœ / ๆŽๅŸบๆ†ฒ) (78), Bishop emeritus of Uijeongbu ์˜์ •๋ถ€ (South Korea)781947.12.31
Bishop Paul Choi Deok-ki (78)Bishop Paul Choi Deok-ki (์ตœ๋•๊ธฐ ๋ฐ”์˜ค๋กœ / ๅด”ๆ‚ณๅŸบ) (78), Bishop emeritus of Suwon ์ˆ˜์› (South Korea)781948.01.15
Archbishop Paul Tschang In-nam (76)Archbishop Paul Tschang In-nam (์žฅ์ธ๋‚จ ๋ฐ”์˜ค๋กœ / ๅผตไปๅ—) (76), Titular Archbishop of Amantia761949.10.30
Bishop Job Koo Yo-bi (75)Bishop Job Koo Yo-bi (๊ตฌ์š”๋น„ ์šฅ / ๅ…ท่ฆๅ‚™) (75), Titular Bishop of Sfasferia and Auxiliary Bishop of Seoul ์„œ์šธ (South Korea)751951.01.25
Bishop Mathias Ri Iong-hoon (74)Bishop Mathias Ri Iong-hoon (์ด์šฉํ›ˆ ๋งˆํ‹ฐ์•„ / ๆŽๅฎนๅ‹ณ) (74), Bishop of Suwon ์ˆ˜์› (South Korea) and President of Catholic Bishopsโ€™ Conference of Korea741951.09.13
Cardinal Lazzaro You Heung-sik (74)Cardinal Lazzaro You Heung-sik (์œ ํฅ์‹ ๋ผ์ž๋กœ / ไฟž่ˆˆๆค) (74), Cardinal-Deacon of Gesรน Buon Pastore alla Montagnola, Prefect of Dicastery for the Clergy, President of Interdicastery Commission for Candidates to Sacred Order, President of Pontifical Work for Ecclesiastical Vocations and Bishop emeritus of Daejeon ๋Œ€์ „ (South Korea)741951.11.17
Bishop Constantine Bae Ki-hyen (73)Bishop Constantine Bae Ki-hyen (๋ฐฐ๊ธฐํ˜„ ์ฝ˜์Šคํƒ„ํ‹ด / ่ฃตๅŸบ่ณข) (73), Bishop emeritus of Masan ๋งˆ์‚ฐ (South Korea)731953.02.01
Bishop Paul Hwang Cheol-soo (72)Bishop Paul Hwang Cheol-soo (ํ™ฉ์ฒ ์ˆ˜ ๋ฐ”์˜ค๋กœ / ้ปƒๅ“ฒๆด™) (72), Bishop emeritus of Busan ๋ถ€์‚ฐ (South Korea)721953.04.15
Archbishop Thaddeus Cho Hwan-kil (71)Archbishop Thaddeus Cho Hwan-kil (์กฐํ™˜๊ธธ ํƒ€๋Œ€์˜ค / ๆ›บ็…ฅๅ‰) (71), Metropolitan Archbishop of Daegu ๋Œ€๊ตฌ (South Korea)711954.11.07
Bishop Basil Cho Kyu-man (70)Bishop Basil Cho Kyu-man (์กฐ๊ทœ๋งŒ ๋ฐ”์‹ค๋ฆฌ์˜ค / ๆ›บๅœญๆ™ฉ) (70), Bishop of Wonju ์›์ฃผ (South Korea)701955.06.08
Bishop Joseph Son Sam-seok (70)Bishop Joseph Son Sam-seok (์†์‚ผ์„ ์š”์…‰ / ๅญซๅƒ็‘ž) (70), Bishop of Busan ๋ถ€์‚ฐ (South Korea)701955.11.03
Bishop Augustinus Kim Jong-soo (70)Bishop Augustinus Kim Jong-soo (๊น€์ข…์ˆ˜ ์•„์šฐ๊ตฌ์Šคํ‹ฐ๋…ธ / ้‡‘ๅฎ—ๅฃฝ) (70), Bishop of Daejeon ๋Œ€์ „ (South Korea) and Vice-President of Catholic Bishopsโ€™ Conference of Korea701956.02.08
Bishop Benedictus Son Hee-song (69)Bishop Benedictus Son Hee-song (์†ํฌ์†ก ๋ฒ ๋„ค๋”•ํ†  / ๅญซๅ‡žๆพ) (69), Bishop of Uijeongbu ์˜์ •๋ถ€ (South Korea)691957.01.28
Bishop Linus Lee Seong-hyo (68)Bishop Linus Lee Seong-hyo (์ด์„ฑํšจ ๋ฆฌ๋…ธ / ๆŽ่–ๅญ) (68), Bishop of Masan ๋งˆ์‚ฐ (South Korea)681957.07.06
Bishop John Chrysostom Kwon Hyeok-ju (68)Bishop John Chrysostom Kwon Hyeok-ju (๊ถŒํ˜์ฃผ ์š”ํ•œ ํฌ๋ฆฌ์†Œ์Šคํ† ๋ชจ / ๆฌŠ่ตซๅ‘จ) (68), Bishop of Andong ์•ˆ๋™ (South Korea)681957.09.05
Bishop Paul Lee Kyung-sang (65)Bishop Paul Lee Kyung-sang (์ด๊ฒฝ์ƒ ๋ฐ”์˜ค๋กœ / ๆŽ็‚…็›ธ) (65), Titular Bishop of Germania in Numidia and Auxiliary Bishop of Seoul ์„œ์šธ (South Korea)651960.11.01
Bishop Titus Seo Sang-bum (65)Bishop Titus Seo Sang-bum (์„œ์ƒ๋ฒ” ํ‹ฐํ†  / ๅพๅฐ™็ฏ„) (65), Military Ordinary of South Korea (South Korea)651961.02.06
Archbishop Peter Chung Soon-taick, O.C.D. (64)Archbishop Peter Chung Soon-taick (์ •์ˆœํƒ ๋ฒ ๋“œ๋กœ / ้„ญๆทณๆพค), O.C.D. (64), Metropolitan Archbishop of Seoul ์„œ์šธ (South Korea) and Apostolic Administrator of Pyong-yang ํ‰์–‘ (North Korea)641961.08.05
Bishop John Kim Son-tae (64)Bishop John Kim Son-tae (๊น€์„ ํƒœ ์‚ฌ๋„์š”ํ•œ / ้‡‘ไป™ๆณฐ) (64), Bishop of Jeonju ์ „์ฃผ (South Korea)641961.09.15
Bishop Pius Moon Chang-woo (63)Bishop Pius Moon Chang-woo (๋ฌธ์ฐฝ์šฐ ๋น„์˜ค / ๆ–‡ๆ˜Œๅฎ‡) (63), Bishop of Jeju ์ œ์ฃผ (South Korea)631963.03.15
Bishop John Baptist Jung Shin-chul (61)Bishop John Baptist Jung Shin-chul (์ •์‹ ์ฒ  ์„ธ๋ก€์ž ์š”ํ•œ / ้„ญไฟกๅ–†) (61), Bishop of Incheon ์ธ์ฒœ (South Korea)611964.10.22
Bishop Germanus Kwak Jin-sang (61)Bishop Germanus Kwak Jin-sang (๊ณฝ์ง„์ƒ ์ œ๋ฅด๋งˆ๋…ธ / ้ƒญ็œž็ฅฅ) (61), Titular Bishop of Forma and Auxiliary Bishop of Suwon ์ˆ˜์› (South Korea)611964.12.20
Bishop Simon Kim Jong-Gang (61)Bishop Simon Kim Jong-Gang (๊น€์ข…๊ฐ• ์‹œ๋ชฌ / ้‡‘้พๅฒก) (61), Bishop of Cheongju ์ฒญ์ฃผ (South Korea)611965.01.02
Bishop John Bosco Chang Shin-ho (59)Bishop John Bosco Chang Shin-ho (์žฅ์‹ ํ˜ธ ์š”ํ•œ ๋ณด์Šค์ฝ” / ๅผตไฟกๆตฉ) (59), Titular Bishop of Vescera and Auxiliary Bishop of Daegu ๋Œ€๊ตฌ (South Korea)591966.05.25
Bishop John Moon Hee-jong (59)Bishop John Moon Hee-jong (๋ฌธํฌ์ข… ์š”ํ•œ ์„ธ๋ก€์ž / ๆ–‡็†™้พ) (59), Titular Bishop of Mutia and Auxiliary Bishop of Suwon ์ˆ˜์› (South Korea)591966.08.26
Archbishop Simon Ok Hyun-jjn (58)Archbishop Simon Ok Hyun-jjn (์˜ฅํ˜„์ง„ ์‹œ๋ชฌ / ็މ่ณข้€ฒ) (58), Metropolitan Archbishop of Gwangju ๊ด‘์ฃผ (South Korea) and General Secretary of Catholic Bishopsโ€™ Conference of Korea581968.03.05
Bishop Pius Sin Ho-zol (57)Bishop Pius Sin Ho-zol (์‹ ํ˜ธ์ฒ  ๋น„์˜ค / ่พ›ๆ˜Šๅ–†) (57), Titular Bishop of Belesasa and Auxiliary Bishop of Busan ๋ถ€์‚ฐ (South Korea)571968.09.03
Bishop Simon Kim Ju-young (56)Bishop Simon Kim Ju-young (๊น€์ฃผ์˜ ์‹œ๋ชฌ / ้‡‘ๅ‘จ็‘ฉ) (56), Bishop of Chuncheon ์ถ˜์ฒœ (South Korea) and Apostolic Administrator of Hamhung ํ•จํฅ (North Korea)561970.03.03
Bishop Stephanus Han Jung-hyun (54)Bishop Stephanus Han Jung-hyun (ํ•œ์ •ํ˜„ ์Šคํ…ŒํŒŒ๋…ธ / ้Ÿ“ๆฅจ้‰‰) (54), Titular Bishop of Mozotcori and Auxiliary Bishop of Daejeon ๋Œ€์ „ (South Korea)541971.09.07

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