Bishop Franciscus Xaverius Eikichi Tanaka †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Takamatsu

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
6 Jun 1902		Born	Toshima-Mura
21 Dec 1935	33.5	Ordained Priest	Priest
13 Sep 1963	61.3	Appointed	Bishop of Takamatsu, Japan
20 Oct 1963	61.4	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Takamatsu, Japan
11 Jan 1977	74.6	Retired	Bishop of Takamatsu, Japan
20 May 1983	81.0	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Takamatsu, Japan

a priest for 47.4 years
a bishop for 19.6 years

Principal Consecrator:
Pope Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini †
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Pietro Sigismondi †
Sergio Cardinal Pignedoli †

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Franciscus Xaverius Eikichi Tanaka † (1963)
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 Raymond Ken'ichi Tanaka

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