Bishop Dominic Ryōji Miyahara

Bishop Emeritus of Fukuoka, Japan

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
22 May 1955		Born
19 Mar 1982	26.8	Ordained Priest	Priest
10 May 2000	44.9	Appointed	Bishop of Oita, Japan
1 Oct 2000	45.3	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Oita, Japan
19 Mar 2008	52.8	Appointed	Bishop of Fukuoka, Japan
27 Apr 2019	63.9	Resigned	Bishop of Fukuoka, Japan

MicroData Summary
Dominic Ryōji Miyahara
Bishop Dominic Ryōji Miyahara
(born 22 May 1955)
Bishop Emeritus of Fukuoka

Ad Limina - December 2007: Bishop
Ad Limina - March 2015: Bishop

Event Place
Birth Place Goto
Ordained Bishop Myojo Gakuen High School, Beppu City

Please contact the Bishop through the Diocese of Fukuoka.

a priest for years
a bishop for years

Principal Consecrator:
Bishop Peter Takaaki Hirayama †
Bishop Emeritus of Oita
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Francis Xavier Kaname Shimamoto, Ist. del Prado †
Archbishop of Nagasaki
Bishop Paul Shinichi Itonaga †
Bishop of Kagoshima

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Bishop Peter Takaaki Hirayama † (1970)
Bishop Emeritus of Oita
Archbishop Bruno Wüstenberg † (1966)
Titular Archbishop of Tyrus
Josef Cardinal Frings † (1942)
Archbishop of Köln {Cologne}
Archbishop Cesare Orsenigo † (1922)
Titular Archbishop of Ptolemais in Libya
Pietro Cardinal Gasparri † (1898)
Cardinal-Priest of San Lorenzo in Lucina
François-Marie-Benjamin Cardinal Richard de la Vergne † (1872)
Archbishop of Paris
Archbishop Joseph Hippolyte Guibert, O.M.I. † (1842)
Archbishop of Paris
Bishop St. Eugène-Charles-Joseph de Mazenod, O.M.I. † (1832)
Bishop of Marseille
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 Paul Sueo Hamaguchi † (2011)

External Link(s):

WikiData: Q1237645

Source(s):

ab: Bollettino, 19 Mar 2008
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 161, Number 13,849
r: Bollettino, 27 Apr 2019

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