Paul Sueo Hamaguchi

Paul Sueo Hamaguchi ( Japanese パ ウ ロ 浜 口 末 雄 , Pauro Hamaguchi Sueo ; born August 1, 1948 in Higashishitsu-machi, Nagasaki ) is a Japanese clergyman and Roman Catholic bishop of Ōita .

Life

Paul Sueo Hamaguchi attended Nanzan College in Nagasaki and studied philosophy and theology at the seminary in Fukuoka. He was ordained a priest on March 19, 1975 and was incardinated in the Archdiocese of Nagasaki . He was vicar in Ōura ( 大 浦 教会 , Ōura kyōkai ; 1975–1978) in the district of Minamiyamate-machi and Shitsu ( 出 津 教会 , Shitsu kyōkai ; 1978–1984) in the district of Nishishitsu-machi ever of Nagasaki. From 1984 to 1992 he was pastor in Ōso ( 大 曽 教会 , Ōso kyōkai ) in Shinkamigotō . After serving as the rector of the Small Seminary in Nagasaki from 1992 to 2002, he took over the parish Fukue ( 福 江 教会 , Fukue kyōkai ) in Gotō from 2002 to 2005 and was also a member of the presbytery council. In 2005 he was transferred to the Diocese of Takamatsu , where he was head of the diocesan office and took over the Shōdoshima parish ( 小豆 島 教会 , Shōdoshima kyōkai ) in Tonoshō .

On March 25, 2011 he was appointed by Pope Benedict XVI. appointed bishop of Ōita . He was ordained bishop on June 26, 2011 by the Archbishop of Nagasaki Joseph Mitsuaki Takami ; Co- consecrators were the Bishop of Fukuoka , Dominic Ryōji Miyahara , and Paul Kenjirō Kōriyama , Bishop of Kagoshima .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} ASIA / JAPAN - Bishop of Oita appointed. In: fides.org. Agenzia Fides, March 26, 2011, archived from the original on December 28, 2014 ; accessed on August 27, 2011 (various misspellings corrected with the help of the Japanese Radio Vaticana article: Urakami → Ōura, Shutsu → Shitsu, Komemeshima → Shōdoshima). 
2. ↑ 大分 教区 司 教 に 浜 口 末 雄 神父 . In: Radio Vaticana. March 25, 2011, Retrieved August 27, 2011 (Japanese). 

Web links

• Entry on Paul Sueo Hamaguchi on catholic-hierarchy.org

predecessor	Office	successor
Dominic Ryōji Miyahara	Bishop of Ōita since 2011	-