Paul Yoshigoro Taguchi

His Eminence

Paul Yoshigoro Taguchi
Cardinal, Archbishop of Osaka
Archdiocese Osaka
Installed December 14, 1941
Term ended February 23, 1978
Predecessor Jean-Baptiste Castanier, M.E.P.
Successor Paul Hisao Yasuda
Orders
Ordination December 22, 1928
Consecration December 14, 1941
Created Cardinal March 5, 1973
by Pope Paul VI
Rank Cardinal
Personal details
Birth name Taguchi Yoshigoro
Born (1902-07-20)July 20, 1902
Sotome, Nagasaki, Japan
Died February 23, 1978(1978-02-23) (aged 75)
Osaka, Japan
Buried Cathedral of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Osaka
Nationality Japanese
Denomination Roman Catholic
Styles of
Paul Yoshigoro Taguchi
Reference style His Eminence
Spoken style Your Eminence
Informal style Cardinal
See Osaka

Paul Yoshigoro Taguchi (田口芳五郎 Taguchi Yoshigoro, July 20, 1902February 23, 1978) was a Japanese prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Osaka from 1941 until his death in 1978, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1973.

Taguchi was born in Sotome, Nagasaki (now part of the city of Nagasaki). After graduation from St. Thomas University, Japan, he studied at the Pontifical Urbaniana University and Pontifical Athenaeum S. Apollinare in Rome, where he was ordained to the priesthood on December 22, 1928.[1] After finishing his studies in 1931, he returned to the Archdiocese of Tokyo, where he served as a seminary professor and director general of the Catholic Press Centre until 1936. From 1936 to 1940, he was secretary of the Apostolic Delegation to Japan.[2]

On November 25, 1941, Taguchi was appointed Bishop of Osaka by Pope Pius XII.[1] He received his episcopal consecration on the following December 14 from Archbishop Paolo Marella, with Archbishop Peter Doi and Bishop Johannes Ross, S.J. serving as co-consecrators, at the Cathedral of Tokyo.[1] He attended the Second Vatican Council from 1962 to 1965, and was promoted to the rank of metropolitan archbishop on July 24, 1969. He also served as President of the Japanese Episcopal Conference from 1970 to 1978.[2] Pope Paul VI created him Cardinal Priest of S. Maria in Via in the consistory of March 5, 1973.[2]

Taguchi died in Osaka, aged 75; he is buried in the Cathedral of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Osaka.[2]

His most accessible writing in English is "The study of Sacred Scripture".[3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Paul Yoshigoro Cardinal Taguchi". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Miranda, Salvador. "TAGUCHI, Paul Yashigoro". The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church.
  3. ACTS/1722 - The study of Sacred Scripture By Cardinal Paul Y. Taguchi. 1979 http://www.pamphlets.org.au/australia/acts1722.html


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