Andrew Yeom Soo-jung, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Andrew Yeom Soo-jung

Archbishop of Seoul

Date of Birth: 05-Dec-1943

Place of Birth: Anseong, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea

Profession: Catholic priest, theologian

Nationality: South Korea

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Andrew Yeom Soo-Jung (Korean: ???; Hanja: ???; born 5 December 1943) is a Korean cardinal of the Catholic Church and the Korean Roman Catholic Archbishop of Seoul.
Yeom succeeded Archbishop Emeritus Cardinal Nicolas Cheong Jin-suk.
As Metropolitan Archbishop of Seoul, he also serves as Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Pyongyang in North Korea.
Aside from Archbishop, he was also the chairman of Catholic Peace Broadcasting Corporation (Korean: ??????? or CPBC).
Founded in 1990, this corporation included a Catholic television channel and a radio station, both of which became highly valued Christian voices and champions of values such as peace, reconciliation, the defence of life, dignity and inalienable human rights. Yeom was made a Cardinal by Pope Francis in a papal consistory on 22 February 2014 at Saint Peter's Basilica in Vatican City.
He will be eligible to participate in any future papal conclaves until he reaches the age of eighty on 5 December 2023.