Lawrence Patrick Henry

Lawrence Patrick Henry ( born July 27, 1934 in Cape Town, † March 4, 2014 ibid ) was Archbishop of Cape Town.

Life

Lawrence Patrick Henry received on 22 December 1962, the ordination. He was in a township of Cape Town, who were then relocated to a residential area for whites and 80,000 colored pastor until 1960.

Pope John Paul II appointed him auxiliary bishop on 27 April 1987 in Cape Town and Titular Bishop of Cenculiana. The Archbishop of Cape Town, Stephen Naidoo CSsR, donated to him on 16 August of the same year, the episcopal ordination; Co-consecrators were George Francis Daniel, Archbishop of Pretoria and the South African Military Ordinariate Bishop, Edward and Robert Adams, Bishop of Oudtshoorn.

On 7 July 1990 he was appointed Archbishop of Cape Town and introduced into the office on 29 August of the same year. On 18 December 2009, Pope Benedict XVI. its age-related resignation.

Lawrence Patrick Henry died on the eve of Ash Wednesday 2014 after a cancer had been found the day before with him.

He was committed to the HOPE Cape Town Foundation (HOPE Cape Town / German AIDS Foundation ) by Stefan Hippler.

Henry visited Germany several times. Invited by John Cardinal Joachim Degenhardt he was in 2000 participants of the Paderborn Libori festival.