Bishop Joseph Hisajiro Matsunaga †

Deceased

Bishop of Fukuoka

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
7 Mar 1930		Born	Himosashi
22 Dec 1956	26.8	Ordained Priest	Priest of Nagasaki, Japan
10 Nov 1977	47.7	Appointed	Auxiliary Bishop of Nagasaki, Japan
10 Nov 1977	47.7	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Umbriatico
5 Feb 1978	47.9	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Umbriatico
6 Oct 1990	60.6	Appointed	Bishop of Fukuoka, Japan
15 Jan 1991	60.9	Installed	Bishop of Fukuoka, Japan
2 Jun 2006	76.2	Died	Bishop of Fukuoka, Japan

a priest for 49.4 years
a bishop for 28.3 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Mario Pio Gaspari †
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Joseph Asjiro Cardinal Satowaki †
Peter Seiichi Cardinal Shirayanagi

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Joseph Hisajiro Matsunaga † (1978)
Archbishop Mario Pio Gaspari † (1973)
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:
Archbishop Joseph Mitsuaki Takami, P.S.S.

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