Peter Shirayanagi

His Eminence
Peter Seiichi Shirayanagi
Cardinal, Archbishop emeritus of Tōkyō
Church Roman Catholic
Archdiocese Tokyo
Installed 21 February 1970
Term ended 17 February 2000
Predecessor Peter Doi
Successor Peter Takeo Okada
Other posts Cardinal-Priest of Santa Emerenziana a Tor Fiorenza
Orders
Ordination 21 December 1954
Consecration 8 May 1966
Created Cardinal 26 November 1994
by John Paul II
Rank Cardinal
Personal details
Birth name 白柳 誠一 Shirayanagi Seiichi
Born (1928-06-17)June 17, 1928
Hachiōji, Tokyo Japan
Died December 30, 2009(2009-12-30) (aged 81)
Nationality Japanese
Previous post Auxiliary Bishop of Tōkyō (1966-1969)
Coadjutor Archbishop of Tōkyō (1969-1970)
Styles of
Peter Shirayanagi
Reference style His Eminence
Spoken style Your Eminence
Informal style Cardinal
See Tokyo

Peter Seiichi Shirayanagi (白柳 誠一 Shirayanagi Seiichi, June 17, 1928 - December 30, 2009) was a Cardinal Priest of the Roman Catholic Church and Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tokyo.[1][2]

Cardinal Shirayanagi was hospitalized at the beginning of August for cardiac arrhythmia, then suffered a light cerebral hemorrhage, but recovered well after 3 months of rehabilitation. On December 23 he moved to Loyola House where he was taken care of.

Life

Born in Hachiōji, Tokyo, Japan, Shirayanagi studied at Sophia University, earning a degree in philosophy in 1951 and a specialization in theology in 1954. Ordained a priest on 21 December 1954 at Kanda Catholic Cathedral, he went to study at the Pontifical Urban University in Rome, earning a doctorate in Canon law in 1960.

Consecrated titular Bishop of Atenia and Auxiliary of Tokyo in 1966, he was named titular Archbishop of Castro and Coadjutor Archbishop of the Tokyo Archdiocese in 1969, and succeeded to the post of Archbishop of Tokyo in 1970. As archbishop, he continued the Tokyo Archdiocesan Convention, implementing the decrees of the Second Vatican Council, and in 1989 led a group to visit the Catholic Church in China. From 1983 to 1992, he presided over the Japanese Catholic Bishops' conference, which opened the Japanese Catholic Center in Tokyo in 1990.

In 1994, he was proclaimed cardinal by Pope John Paul II with the title of Cardinal-Priest of Santa Emerenziana a Tor Fiorenza. On 12 June 2000, he retired as archbishop of Tokyo. He was one of the cardinal electors who participated in the 2005 papal conclave that selected Pope Benedict XVI.

Shirayanagi was an honorary member of A.V. Edo-Rhenania Tokyo, a Catholic student fraternity that is affiliated with the Cartellverband der katholischen deutschen Studentenverbindungen.

This is the list of his major life events:

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