Lazarus You Heung-sik

I hesitated over whether a Vatican cardinal belongs in a celebrity database, but Lazarus You Heung-sik is too remarkable to leave out. Born in rural Nonsan, he rose to become Prefect of the Dicastery for the Clergy, the first Korean ever to head a department of the Roman Curia. That is a staggering ascent, or perhaps a staggering vocation, overseeing the clergy of a global church of over a billion. His is a life given to prayer and service, utterly removed from the world of fame. To a secular observer like me it feels like another order of existence entirely, and people who quietly hold the world up deserve to be recorded with genuine respect.

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Name (English)

Lazarus You Heung-sik

Name (Japanese)

ラザロ兪興植

Reading

らざろ兪興植

Born

November 17, 1951 (age 74)

Origin

Nonsan, South Chungcheong, South Korea

Occupation

Catholic priest / Latin Catholic bishop

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Rabbit

High school

Nonsan Daegeon High School

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus%20You%20Heung-sik
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%85%AA%E8%88%88%E6%A4%8D
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1809520

Tags

• South Chungcheong
• Catholic priest
• Latin Catholic bishop

Last updated

September 18, 2026

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.