Januarius Kyūnosuke Hayasaka

Januarius Kyūnosuke Hayasaka ( Japanese ヤ ヌ ア リ オ 早 坂 久 之 助 , Yanuario Hayasaka Kyūnosuke ; born September 17, 1883 in Sendai , Japan ; † October 26, 1959 ) was the first Japanese bishop of the Roman Catholic Church in Japan .

Life

Januarius Kyūnosuke Hayasaka was ordained a priest on June 10, 1917 . On July 16, 1927, he was appointed Bishop of Nagasaki . Bishop Hayasaka was the first Japanese diocesan bishop to be appointed and consecrated. Previously, the Paris Mission and other religious orders provided the vast majority of the Japanese ordinaries . On July 16, 1927, after the organizational restructuring of the Catholic Church in Japan, the independent Japanese church administration took place .

Pope Pius XI (1922-1939) initiated him on 30 October 1927 the first Bishop of Nagasaki, co-consecrators were the Archbishop and General Superior of the Paris Mission Jean-Baptiste-Marie de Bude Guébriant and the Archbishop of Tokyo Jean-Baptiste-Alix Chambon MEP . The official inauguration was celebrated on April 25, 1928. With his appointment as titular bishop of Philomelium on February 5, 1937, Hayasaka lived as bishop emeritus of Nagasaki until his death .

Bishop Hayasaka consecrated Johannes Peter Franziskus Ross SJ , Vicar Apostolic of Hiroshima , as titular bishop of Tabala and was co - consecrator of Marie-Joseph Lemieux OP as bishop of Sendai .

Web links

• Apostolic succession: appointments 1927 [1] , appointments 1937 [2] , titular seats [3] , Nekrolog 1959 [4]
• Entry for Januarius Kyūnosuke Hayasaka on catholic-hierarchy.org
• Japanese Bishops Conference-Archdiocese of Nagasaki (English)
• Entry on gcatholic.org (English)