Stephen Fumio Hamao
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Stephen Fumio Hamao (浜尾 ステファノ 文郎, born 9 March 1930) is a Japanese Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and the President of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People. He was made a cardinal by Pope John Paul II in 2003.
Born in Tokyo, Hamao studied in his native Japan and then at the Pontifical Urbanian University in Rome, ordained as a priest on 21 December 1957. After his ordination, he returned to Tokyo, where he served as secretary to the Cardinal Archbishop, secretary of the archdiocesan liturgical commission and finally, parish priest of the Cathedral.
Appointed titular bishop of Oreto in 1970, Hamao was named Bishop of Yokohama on 30 October 1979, a post he held for almost 20 years until his resignation on 15 June 1998, when he was promoted to Archbishop and made President of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People.
Elevated to the College of Cardinals on 21 October 2003 by Pope John Paul II, Hamao holds the title of Cardinal Deacon of St. John Bosco in Via Tuscolana. He was one of the cardinal electors who participated in the 2005 papal conclave that selected Pope Benedict XVI.
