{{Short description|Japanese Cardinal of the Catholic Church (1930–2007)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2022}} {{Infobox Christian leader |type = Cardinal |honorific_prefix = [[His Eminence]] |name = Stephen Fumio Hamao |title = [[Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People|President Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People]] |church = [[Catholic Church]] |appointed = 15 June 1998 |term_end = 11 March 2006 |predecessor = [[Giovanni Cheli]] |successor = [[Renato Raffaele Martino]] |other_post = Cardinal-Deacon of San Giovanni Bosco in Via Tuscolana (2003-07) |ordination = 21 December 1957 |ordained_by = [[Pietro Sigismondi]] |consecration = 29 April 1970 |consecrated_by = [[Bruno Wüstenberg]] |cardinal = 21 October 2003 |created_cardinal_by = [[Pope John Paul II]] |rank = [[Cardinal-Deacon]] |birth_name = Stephen Fumio Hamao |birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1930|03|09}} |birth_place = [[Tokyo]], [[Japan]] |death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2007|11|09|1930|03|09}} |death_place = Tokyo, Japan |previous_post = {{unbulleted list|Titular Bishop of Oreto (1970-79)|[[Archdiocese of Tokyo|Auxiliary Bishop of Tokyo]] (1970-79)|[[Bishop of Yokohama]] (1979-98)|[[Episcopal Conference of Japan|President of the Japanese Episcopal Conference]] (1995-98)}} |alma_mater = {{unbulleted list|[[Hitotsubashi University]]|[[Pontifical Urban University]]}} |motto = ''Adveniat regnum Tuum'' }}
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'''Stephen Fumio Hamao''' (濱尾 文郎 ''Hamao Fumio'') (9 March 1930 – 8 November 2007) was a [[Japanese person|Japanese]] [[Cardinal (Catholic Church)|cardinal of the Catholic Church]] and was the president of the [[Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerants]] until it merged with other elements of the Roman [[Curia]]. He was made a cardinal by [[Pope John Paul II]] in 2003.
==Biography== Hamao was born in Tokyo, the third son of the Viscount [[Shirō Hamao]] (1896–1935), who was an adopted son of the Viscount [[Hamao Arata]], the 8th President of [[University of Tokyo]] and the 11th [[Monbusho|Minister of Education]].<ref>[http://kotobank.jp/word/浜尾四郎 日本人名大辞典+プラス:浜尾四郎 (Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese People Plus: Shirō Hamao)] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130510065821/http://kotobank.jp/word/ |date=10 May 2013 }} (in Japanese). Retrieved on 2012-03-14.</ref> His family home housed both [[Shinto]] and [[Buddhist]] shrines, but his widowed mother converted to Catholicism in 1942, and he and his brother Minoru were [[baptism|baptised]] in 1946. He studied at [[Hitotsubashi University]] and then joined a [[seminary]]. After further study at the [[Pontifical Urbaniana University]] in Rome, he was ordained as a priest on 21 December 1957.
After his [[ordination]], he returned to Tokyo, where he served as secretary to the [[Cardinal (Catholic Church)|cardinal]] [[archbishop]], secretary of the [[diocese|archdiocesan]] [[liturgy|liturgical]] commission and, finally, parish priest of the cathedral.
Hamao was on the hijacked [[Japan Airlines Flight 351]] as a passenger in 1970.<ref>{{cite web|authorlink=Salvador Miranda (historian) |last=Miranda |first=Salvador |title=HAMAO, Stephen Fumio (1930-2007)|url=https://cardinals.fiu.edu/bios2003.htm#Hamaoi|work=The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church |publisher=[[Florida International University]]|oclc=53276621}}</ref> He was appointed titular bishop of [[Oreto]] and [[auxiliary bishop]] of Tokyo on 5 February 1970, and was consecrated on 29 April 1970. He was named [[Bishop of Yokohama]] on 30 October 1979, a post he held for almost 20 years until he resigned on 15 June 1998 to become President of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerants. He was made an [[Archbishop]] at the same time. He was also head of the regional branch of the charity [[Caritas (charity)|Caritas]], and became president of the [[Episcopal Conference of Japan|Japanese Episcopal Conference]] in 1995.
He was elevated to the [[College of Cardinals]] on 21 October 2003 by [[Pope John Paul II]], holding the title of [[Cardinal Deacon]] of ''[[San Giovanni Bosco in Via Tuscolana|St. John Bosco in Via Tuscolana]]''. The same year, he had called for a ''Third Vatican Council'' to deal with the question of local church authority.<ref>[http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20031220/NEWS10/112200122 Cardinal Calls for Third Vatican Council]</ref>
He was one of the [[Cardinal electors for the papal conclave, 2005|cardinal electors in the 2005 papal conclave]] that selected [[Pope Benedict XVI]]. He resigned from the Pontifical Council in March 2006, a month after the [[Congregation for the Causes of Saints]] approved the [[beatification]] of 188 Japanese [[martyr]]s from the 17th century.
His late brother Minoru served [[Akihito|Crown Prince Akihito]] as [[East Palace Chamberlain]] (tōgūjijū, 東宮侍従). Cardinal Hamao instructed Akihito in [[Latin]], but he criticised a perceived "excessively Westernised" bias and "over-intellectualised" theology in the Catholic Church. Shortly after he urged Pope Benedict XVI to appoint more Asians to positions of power in the Roman Curia, Cardinal [[Ivan Dias]] became prefect of the [[Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples]].
Cardinal Hamao died at age 77 of lung cancer on 8 November 2007.<ref>{{cite news | access-date = 23 February 2021 | url = https://www.thetimes.com/travel/destinations/europe-travel/cardinal-stephen-fumio-hamao-jkxvj89nllc | work = [[The Times]] | date= 13 November 2007 | title = Cardinal Stephen Fumio Hamao }}</ref>
== See also == * [[Roppa Furukawa]] - Uncle
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* [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bhamaosf.html Biography at catholic-hierarchy.org] * {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20031220214215/http://www.catholic-pages.com/hierarchy/cardinals_bio.asp?ref=207 Biography at catholic-pages.com]}}
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