Bishop Marcellino Daiji Tani †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Saitama, Japan

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
13 Feb 1953		Born
21 Mar 1986	33.1	Ordained Priest	Priest of Urawa, Japan
10 May 2000	47.2	Appointed	Bishop of Urawa, Japan
15 Sep 2000	47.5	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Urawa, Japan
27 Jul 2013	60.4	Resigned	Bishop of Saitama, Japan
10 Oct 2026	73.6	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Saitama, Japan

MicroData Summary
Marcellino Daiji Tani
Bishop Marcellino Daiji Tani
(born 13 Feb 1953, died 10 Oct 2026)
Bishop Emeritus of Saitama

Ad Limina - December 2007: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Kansai
Ordained Bishop Kiasei Girls High School, Utsunomiya
Death Place Red Cross, Hospital, Saitama

a priest for 40.5 years
a bishop for 26.0 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Peter Takeo Okada †
Archbishop of Tōkyō
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Rafael Masahiro Umemura
Bishop of Yokohama
Bishop Francis Keiichi Sato, O.F.M. †
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:
Tarcisio Isao Cardinal Kikuchi, S.V.D. (2004)
Bishop Martin Tetsuo Hiraga (2006)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 251601017
WikiData: Q1300511

Source(s):

ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 160, Number 13,837
r: Bollettino, 27 Jul 2013
d: CB, 17 Oct 2026

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