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Wilfrid Fox Napier OFM (born 8 March 1941) is a South African cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and Archbishop of Durban, South Africa. ==Biography== Napier, a native South African, was born on 8 March 1941 in Swartberg, South Africa, and ordained a priest in 1970. In 1978 he was appointed as an apostolic administrator of Kokstad and in 1980 he was appointed bishop of Kokstad.〔 In 1992, he succeeded Denis Hurley as archbishop of Durban, a position he still holds. He chose as his episcopal motto the franciscan phrase ''pax et bonum'' which translated means "Peace and goodwill". Cardinal Napier graduated from University College Galway in 1964 with a degree in Latin and English. He then obtained a MA in philosophy and theology from the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium.〔 31 years later, in 1995, the University bestowed the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws on him.〔(National University of Ireland, Galway profile of Wilfrid Cardinal Napier )〕〔(National University of Ireland, Galway report on Napier's elevation to the cardinalate )〕 During the early nineties, he and other church leaders were involved in mediation and negotiation during the unrest leading up to the 1994 election and was present in September 1991 when the Peace Accord was signed.〔 He was president of the Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference in 1987-94 and 1999.〔 Napier is a Member of the Episcopal Board of the International Commission on English in the Liturgy (ICEL). Napier was proclaimed a Cardinal-Priest of the Church in 2001, given the titular church of ''San Francesco d'Assisi ad Acilia'';〔(Cardinal Title S. Francesco d’Assisi ad Acilia ) GCatholic.org〕 and was one of the cardinal electors who participated in the 2005 papal conclave that selected Pope Benedict XVI, formerly Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger. On 21 March 2012, Cardinal Napier was appointed a Member of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Health Care Workers by Pope Benedict XVI.〔(Cardinal Napier appointed a Member of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Health Care Workers )〕 He was one of the cardinal electors who participated in the 2013 papal conclave that selected Pope Francis. On 8 March 2014, Pope Francis appointed him to serve as a Cardinal Member of the newly established Council for Economic Affairs, which will oversee the work of the new Secretariat for the Economy, the financial regulatory agency for the departments of the Roman Curia.〔http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2014/03/08/0171/00360.html〕 He is an occasional contributor to the South African national Catholic weekly "The Southern Cross".〔(Cardinal Napier in The Southern Cross )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wilfrid Napier」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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