Francis Xavier Osamu Mizobe

Francis Xavier Osamu Mizobe SDB ( Jap. フランシスコ·ザビエル溝部脩 , Furanshisuko Zabieru Mizobe Osamu * 5. March 1935 in Shingishū , sub-province Heian hokudō , Province Chosen , a former Empire of Japan , today's North Korea , † 29. February 2016 ) was a Japanese chaplain , missionary and Roman Catholic bishop .

Life

In 1955 he entered the order of the Salesians of Don Bosco , studied philosophy and Catholic theology in Italy and was ordained a priest on February 9, 1964 . In 1990 he became Provincial of his order in Japan. In 1998 he became Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Nagasaki .

On May 10, 2000, he was appointed Bishop of Sendai by Pope John Paul II . The episcopal ordination donated him Peter Takeo Okada , Archbishop of Tokyo , on September 9 of the same year; Co- consecrators were Francis Keiichi Satō OFM , Bishop of Niigata , and Peter Toshio Jinushi , Bishop of Sapporo .

On May 14, 2004, he was appointed bishop of Takamatsu . The inauguration took place on July 19 of the same year. In 2009 he ordered the closure of the Seminary of the Neocatechumenal Way in Takamatsu. On March 25, 2011, Pope Benedict XVI. Mizobe's motion to resign from the office of Bishop of Takamatsu for reasons of age; he last lived in Kyoto.

Web links

Entry on Francis Xavier Osamu Mizobe on catholic-hierarchy.org
Obituary Francis Xavier Osamu Mizobe on salesians.jp (Japanese)

predecessor	Office	successor
Raymond Augustin Chihiro Satō OP	Bishop of Sendai 2000-2004	Martin Tetsuo Hiraga
Joseph Satoshi Fukahori	Bishop of Takamatsu 2004–2011	John Eijirō Suwa

personal data
SURNAME	Mizobe, Francis Xavier Osamu
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	フランシスコ・ザビエル溝部脩 (Japanese); Mizobe, Francis X. Osamu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Japanese religious and Roman Catholic bishop
DATE OF BIRTH	March 5, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH	Shingishū , Heian-hokudō Sub - Province, Chōsen Province, former Japanese Empire, today's North Korea
DATE OF DEATH	February 29, 2016