Thomas Stewart (8 August 1925 – 30 October 1994)Bishop Thomas Stewart Catholic Church in Korea was an Irish Columban priest, who served as Bishop of Chuncheon in South Korea from 1966 until 1994.
Stewart was born in 1925 in Woodford, County Galway, Ireland.Bishop Thomas Stewart Catholic Hierarchy He was ordained a priest in 1950 for the Missionary Society of St. Columban, and went to South Korea in 1954. He served as Vicar General in the Chunchon Diocese before being elevated in 1966 to Bishop.
For health reasons, Stewart retired in May 1994. He died a few months later in Ireland of a heart attack.Retired Bishop Thomas Stewart Missioner to Korea dies in Ireland
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