Sulpizio Shinzo Moriyama is a Japanese Roman Catholic prelate currently serving as the Bishop of the

Roman Catholic Diocese of Oita The Roman Catholic Diocese of Oita ( la, Oitaen(sis), ja, カトリック大分教区) is a suffragan Latin diocese in the Ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archbishopric of Nagasaki in southern Japan. Its cathedral episcopal see is ...

, Japan.

Early life

Moriyama was born on 17 January 1959 in

Fukuoka is the List of Japanese cities by population, sixth-largest city in Japan, the second-largest port city after Yokohama, and the capital city of Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. The city is built along the shores of Hakata Bay, and has been a center ...

, Japan. He completed his studies in philosophy at the

Keio University , mottoeng = The pen is mightier than the sword , type = Private research coeducational higher education institution , established = 1858 , founder = Yukichi Fukuzawa , endow ...

of Tokyo and in Theology at the St. Sulpizio Seminary in

, Japan.

Priesthood

Bishop Moriyama was ordained a priest on 21 March 1988, incardinated in the

Roman Catholic Diocese of Fukuoka The Roman Catholic Diocese of Fukuoka ( la, Fukuokaën(sis), ja, カトリック福岡教区) is a diocese located in Fukuoka in the Ecclesiastical province of Nagasaki 長崎 in Japan. History * July 16, 1927: Established as Diocese of Fukuok ...

Episcopate

On 5 April 2022,

Pope Francis Pope Francis ( la, Franciscus; it, Francesco; es, link=, Francisco; born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, 17 December 1936) is the head of the Catholic Church. He has been the bishop of Rome and sovereign of the Vatican City State since 13 March 2013. ...

appointed Moriyama as bishop of the

. He was Ordained a bishop on 3 July 2022 by

Peter Michiaki Nakamura Peter Michiaki Nakamura is a Japanese prelate of the Catholic Church who has been Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Nagasaki, Japan, since 2022. He was an auxiliary bishop there from 2019 to 2022. Early life and education Nakamura was born in ...

References

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