Peter Tatsuo Doi

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Archbishop Peter Tatsuo (1938)

Peter Tatsuo Cardinal Doi ( Japanese ペ ト ロ 土井 辰 雄 Petoro Doi Tatsuo , born December 22, 1892 in Sendai , Japan , † February 21, 1970 in Tokyo ) was Archbishop of Tokyo .

Life

Peter Tatsuo Doi was baptized when he was nine years old . To become a priest , he studied philosophy and theology in Sendai and Rome . He was ordained a priest on May 1, 1921 and then worked as a pastor in the Diocese of Sendai . From 1934 to 1937 he was the secretary of the Apostolic Delegation in Japan. In 1937 Pope Pius XI appointed him . to the Archbishop of Tokyo . He was the first native archbishop; his predecessors were foreign missionaries. During the Second World War , Peter Tatsuo Doi was director of the National Catholic Central Committee in Japan. Pope Pius XII awarded him the title of Papal Assistant to the Throne in 1956 .

On March 28, 1960, Pope John XXIII took him . as a cardinal priest with the titular church Sant'Antonio da Padova in Via Merulana in the College of Cardinals . Peter Tatsuo Doi was a participant in the Second Vatican Council from 1962 to 1965 and took part in the conclave of 1963 .

He died on 21 February 1970, a pneumonia at a hospital in Tokyo and has been in the local St. Mary's Cathedral buried.

literature

  • Charles Moritz: Current Biography Yearbook 1960 . HW Wilson, New York 1961, pp. 119–121 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive - Page 119 is missing in the scan).
  • Felice D. Levy: Doi, Peter Tatsuo: 77. In: Obituaries on file . 1979, OCLC 741779798 .
  • Frank K. Flinn: Doi, Peter Tatsuo Cardinal (1892-1970) . In: Encyclopedia of Catholicism . Infobase Publishing, 2007, ISBN 978-0-8160-7565-2 , pp. 234 ( books.google.de ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Cardinal doi Dead; Tokyo's Archbishop . In: The New York Times . February 22, 1970 ( nytimes.com ).
predecessor Office successor
Jean-Baptiste-Alix Chambon Archbishop of Tokyo
1937–1970
Peter Seiichi Cardinal Shirayanagi