Bishop Marcellino Taiji Tani

Bishop of Saitama

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
13 Feb 1953		Born	Kansai
21 Mar 1986	33.1	Ordained Priest	Priest of Urawa, Japan
10 May 2000	47.2	Appointed	Bishop of Urawa, Japan
15 Sep 2000	47.6	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Urawa, Japan

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Saitama.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Peter Takeo Okada
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Rafael Masahiro Umemura
Bishop Francis Keiichi Sato, O.F.M. †

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Marcellino Taiji Tani (2000)
Archbishop Peter Takeo Okada (1991)
Peter Seiichi Cardinal Shirayanagi † (1966)
Archbishop Mario Cagna † (1962)
Amleto Giovanni Cardinal Cicognani † (1933)
Raffaele Carlo Cardinal Rossi, O.C.D. † (1920)
Gaetano Cardinal De Lai † (1911)
Pope St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto † (1884)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Father Carlo Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna (Jr.) † (1762)
Pope Carlo della Torre Rezzonico † (1743)
Pope Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini † (1724)
Pope Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. † (1675)
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Tarcisio Isao Kikuchi, S.V.D.
Bishop Martin Tetsuo Hiraga

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 160, Number 13,837

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