Wilfrid Napier

Wilfrid Fox Napier, OFM, Cardinal ( born March 8, 1941 in Swartberg, South Africa) is Archbishop of Durban.

Life

Wilfrid Fox Napier resigned after his school years in the Franciscan order and studied Catholic theology and philosophy at the Catholic University of Leuven. After his ordination in 1970, he learned Xhosa and worked as a pastor in Lusikisiki and Tabankulu.

From 1978 to 1980 he was Apostolic Administrator and from 1980 to 1992 Bishop of Kokstad. On February 28, 1981 he donated the Archbishop of Durban, Denis Eugene Hurley, episcopal ordination. Co-consecrators were Auxiliary Bishop Dominic Joseph Chwane Khumalo and the Bishop of Umtata, Andrew Zolile T. Brook.

As Bishop of Kokstad, he spent seven years as president of the Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference and made in the period of transition of the country from apartheid to democracy as a skilled negotiator a name.

On March 29, 1992, Pope John Paul II appointed Archbishop of Durban. From 1994 to 2008 he was Apostolic Administrator of the Bishopric of Umzimkulu. Since 2001, Wilfried Fox Napier heard as cardinal priest with the titular church of San Francesco d' Assisi ad Acilia to the College of Cardinals.

On February 14, 2009 Pope Benedict XVI appointed him. delegated to the President held in October of the same year Special Assembly for Africa of the Synod of Bishops. On March 21, 2012, he appointed him to the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Assistance to Health Care Workers.

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