Bishop John Shojiro Ito †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Niigata

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
13 Mar 1909		Born	Akita
21 Mar 1938	29.0	Ordained Priest	Priest of Niigata, Japan
16 Apr 1962	53.1	Appointed	Bishop of Niigata, Japan
14 Jun 1962	53.3	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Niigata, Japan
9 Mar 1985	76.0	Retired	Bishop of Niigata, Japan
14 Mar 1993	84.0	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Niigata, Japan

a priest for 55.0 years
a bishop for 30.8 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Domenico Enrici †
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Lucas Katsusaburo Arai †
Bishop Laurentius Satoshi Nagae †

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop John Shojiro Ito † (1962)
Archbishop Domenico Enrici † (1955)
Pope Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini † (1954)
Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Cardinal Tisserant † (1937)
Pope Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli † (1917)
Pope Giacomo della Chiesa † (1907)
Pope St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto † (1884)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Carlo Cardinal Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna † (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 Francis Keiichi Sato, O.F.M. †

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