Pope Benedict has appointed Bishop Thaddeus Cho Hwan-kil as the new archbishop of Daegu in South Korea.
Archbishop-elect Cho was previously auxiliary and diocesan administrator of the archdiocese, VIS reports.
He was born in Hwa-Won, Korea in 1954, he was ordained a priest in 1981 and consecrated a bishop in 2007.
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