Bishop Michael Gorō Matsuura

Bishop of Nagoya, Japan

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
28 Sep 1952		Born
21 Mar 1981	28.4	Ordained Priest	Priest
19 Apr 1999	46.5	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Osaka, Japan
19 Apr 1999	46.5	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Sfasferia
17 Jul 1999	46.8	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Sfasferia
29 Mar 2015	62.5	Appointed	Bishop of Nagoya, Japan

MicroData Summary
Michael Gorō Matsuura
Bishop Michael Gorō Matsuura
(born 28 Sep 1952)
Bishop of Nagoya

Ad Limina - December 2007: Bishop
Ad Limina - March 2015: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Nagoya

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Nagoya.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Leo Jun Ikenaga, S.J.
Archbishop of Osaka
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Augustinus Jun-ichi Nomura
Bishop of Nagoya
Bishop Paul Yoshinao Otsuka
Bishop of Kyōto

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Leo Jun Ikenaga, S.J. (1996)
Archbishop of Osaka
Archbishop Paul Hisao Yasuda † (1970)
Archbishop of Osaka
Archbishop Bruno Wüstenberg † (1966)
Titular Archbishop of Tyrus
Josef Cardinal Frings † (1942)
Archbishop of Köln {Cologne}
Archbishop Cesare Orsenigo † (1922)
Titular Archbishop of Ptolemais in Libya
Pietro Cardinal Gasparri † (1898)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Lucina
François-Marie-Benjamin Cardinal Richard de la Vergne † (1872)
Archbishop of Paris
Archbishop Joseph Hippolyte Guibert, O.M.I. † (1842)
Archbishop of Paris
Bishop St. Eugène-Charles-Joseph de Mazenod, O.M.I. † (1832)
Bishop of Marseille
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 Edgar Cuntapay Gacutan, C.I.C.M. (2022)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 259706642
WikiData: Q1515301

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 156, Number 13,588
ab: Bollettino, 29 Mar 2015

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