Thaddeus Cho Hwan-kil

The fourth of eight children, Cho was born in Dalseong County, Daegu, to Raymund Cho Sun-jo (조순조 라이문도, d. 2000) and Nympha Na Il-nam(나일남 님파).[1]

After being ordained to the Priesthood in 1981, Cho served as the Pastor of Deoksoo Parish and Hyeonggok Parish of Daegu, Director of Gwandeokjeong Martyrs' Memorial in Daegu, President of Maeil Newspaper of Daegu, and was appointed as an Auxiliary Bishop of Daegu and Titular Bishop of Abbir Maius on March 23, 2007. He received his episcopal consecration on the following April 3 from Archbishop John Choi Young-su, with Bishop John Chrisostom Kwon Hyok-ju, Bishop of Andong and Bishop Augustine Cheong Myong-jo, Bishop of Busan serving as co-consecrators. He chose as his episcopal motto: Sicut erat in principio, et nunc, et semper, et in saecula saeculorum, meaning "Both now and always, and unto the ages of ages" (처음과 같이 이제와 항상 영원히).

With Archbishop John Choi Young-su's resignation in 2009, Cho had been acting as the Vicar General of the Daegu until 2010.

On June 25, 2002, Cho was appointed the tenth Archbishop of Daegu by Pope Benedict XVI.[2] He was formally installed at the Gyesan-dong Cathedral of Our Lady of Lourdes on December 20, 2010. He received the pallium, a vestment worn by metropolitan bishops, from Pope Benedict XVI on June 29, 2011, in a ceremony at St. Peter's Basilica.

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