Bishop Bernard Taiji Katsuya

Bishop of Sapporo, Japan

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
2 Dec 1955		Born
29 Apr 1986	30.4	Ordained Priest	Priest of Sapporo, Japan
22 Jun 2013	57.5	Appointed	Bishop of Sapporo, Japan
14 Oct 2013	57.8	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Sapporo, Japan

MicroData Summary
Bernard Taiji Katsuya
Bishop Bernard Taiji Katsuya
(born 2 Dec 1955)
Bishop of Sapporo

Ad Limina - March 2015: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Muroran-Hokkaido

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Sapporo.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Peter Takeo Okada †
Archbishop of Tōkyō
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Peter Toshio Jinushi †
Bishop Emeritus of Sapporo
Bishop Tarcisio Isao Kikuchi, S.V.D.
Bishop of Niigata

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Peter Takeo Okada † (1991)
Archbishop of Tōkyō
Archbishop Peter Seiichi Shirayanagi † (1966)
Archbishop of Tōkyō
Archbishop Mario Cagna † (1962)
Titular Archbishop of Heraclea in Europa
Amleto Giovanni Cardinal Cicognani † (1933)
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
Raffaele Carlo Cardinal Rossi, O.C.D. † (1920)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prassede
Gaetano Cardinal De Lai † (1911)
Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina
Pope Pius X (1884)
(St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto †)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Carlo Cardinal Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi XII Apostoli
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond (Jean-François) Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna (Jr.) † (1762)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Pace
Pope Clement XIII (1743)
(Carlo della Torre Rezzonico †)
Pope Benedict XIV (1724)
(Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini †)
Pope Benedict XIII (1675)
(Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. †)
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Chamberlain (Camerlengo) of the Apostolic Chamber
Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere
Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Pudenziana
Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
Archbishop of Bologna
Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
Archbishop Emeritus of Bari (-Canosa)
Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
Cardinal-Priest of San Bartolomeo all’Isola
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †
Titular Patriarch of Constantinople

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Paul Daisuke Narui, S.V.D. (2020)
Bishop Andrea Lembo, P.I.M.E. (2023)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q14319030

Source(s):

b: Bollettino, 22 Jun 2013
ob: CB, 26 Jun 2013
c2+: CB, 14 Oct 2013
b/c2+: Revue des Ordinations Épiscopales, Issue 2,013, Number 143
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 216, Number 17,976

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