# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nicolas-cheong-jin-suk
# Generated: 2026-08-15T02:35:34.119Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/nicolas-cheong-jin-suk"
name: "Nicolas Cheong Jin-suk"
slug: "nicolas-cheong-jin-suk"
description: "Nicholas Cheong Jin-suk was a South Korean Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Seoul from 1998 until he retired in 2012. He was previously Bishop of Cheongju from 1970 to 1998. He was made a cardinal in 2006."
tagline: "South Korean Catholic cardinal (1931–2021)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nicolas_Cheong_Jin-suk_2014.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "KR"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "religious-figure"
birthDate: "1931-12-07"
deathDate: "2021-04-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump