Bishop Francis Xavier Osamu Mizobe, S.D.B. †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Takamatsu, Japan

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
5 Mar 1935		Born
9 Feb 1964	28.9	Ordained Priest	Priest of Salesians of Saint John Bosco
10 May 2000	65.1	Appointed	Bishop of Sendai, Japan
9 Sep 2000	65.5	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Sendai, Japan
14 May 2004	69.1	Appointed	Bishop of Takamatsu, Japan
19 Jul 2004	69.3	Installed	Bishop of Takamatsu, Japan
25 Mar 2011	76.0	Retired	Bishop of Takamatsu, Japan
29 Feb 2016	80.9	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Takamatsu, Japan

MicroData Summary
Francis Xavier Osamu Mizobe
Bishop Francis Xavier Osamu Mizobe S.D.B.
(born 5 Mar 1935, died 29 Feb 2016)
Bishop Emeritus of Takamatsu

Ad Limina - December 2007: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Shingishu
Ordained Bishop Motoderakoji, Cathedral, Sendai, Diocese of Sendai

a priest for 52.0 years
a bishop for 15.4 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Peter Takeo Okada †
Archbishop of Tōkyō
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Francis Keiichi Sato, O.F.M. †
Bishop of Niigata
Bishop Peter Toshio Jinushi †
Bishop of Sapporo

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 John Eijiro Suwa (2011)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 56471424
WikiData: Q436884

Source(s):

r: Bollettino, 25 Mar 2011
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 160, Number 13,832
d: CB, 1 Mar 2016
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 230, Necrology (back)

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