Peter Doi Explained

Type:Cardinal
Honorific-Prefix:His Eminence
Doi Tatsuo
Cardinal, Archbishop of Tokyo
See:Tokyo
Enthroned:2 December 1937
Ended:21 February 1970
Predecessor:Jean-Alexis Chambon, MEP
Successor:Peter Shirayanagi
Ordination:1 May 1921
Consecration:13 February 1938
Cardinal:28 March 1960
Created Cardinal By:John XXIII
Birth Date:22 December 1892
Birth Place:Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
Death Place:Tokyo, Japan
Cardinal Name:Peter Doi
Dipstyle:His Eminence
Offstyle:Your Eminence
See:Tokyo

Peter Tatsuo Doi (土井 辰雄 Doi Tatsuo) (22 December 1892 – 21 February 1970) was a Japanese Cardinal of the Catholic Church.[1] He served as Archbishop of Tokyo from 1937 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1960.

Biography

Doi was born in Sendai.[1] He was baptized at the age of nine, on 21 April 1902. He studied at the seminary in Sendai and the Pontifical Urbaniana University in Rome.

Doi was ordained to the priesthood on 1 May 1921. Doi then did pastoral work in Sendai until 1934, when he was made Secretary of the Apostolic Delegation to Japan.

On 2 December 1937, Doi was appointed Archbishop of Tokyo by Pope Pius XI. He received his episcopal consecration on 13 February 1938 from Archbishop Jean-Alexis Chambon, MEP, with Bishops Paul Aijiro Yamaguchi and Marie-Joseph Lemieux serving as co-consecrators. During World War II, Doi served as executive director of the National Catholic Central Committee. He was Apostolic Administrator of Yokohama from 1945 to 1947.

Pope John XXIII created him Cardinal Priest of S. Antonio da Padova in Via Merulana in the consistory of 28 March 1960.[2] Doi, hoped by the Vatican to enliven the Church in Japan,[3] thus became the first Japanese member of the College of Cardinals. A celebration of this event was held at the St. Ignatius church in Tokyo, a church which was dedicated by Doi in 1949.[4] He attended the Second Vatican Council from 1962 to 1965, and was later one of the cardinal electors who participated in the 1963 papal conclave that selected Pope Paul VI.

Doi died in Tokyo, aged 77. He is buried in St. Mary's Cathedral.

Doi, along with Stefan Wyszyński, assisted Paul Peter Meouchi in delivering one of the closing messages of the Second Vatican Council on 8 December 1965.[5]

References

  1. [Louis-Frédéric|Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric]
  2. https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1960/03/04/105420922.pdf "Sketches of Six of the Cardinals-Designate; Japanese Named Has Been Archbishop Since 1937,"
  3. TIME Magazine. "Seven New Hats", 14 March 1960.
  4. Web site: Kōjimachi Catholic Church . https://web.archive.org/web/20230628133941/https://tokyo.catholic.jp/en/parishes/tokyo/kojimachi/ . 2023-06-28 . 2023-07-06 . Catholic Archdiocese of Tokyo . en.
  5. Christus Rex. To the Poor, the Sick and the Suffering.

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