Thomas Aquino Manyo Maeda (Japanese: 前田万葉, Hepburn: Maeda Manyō) (born 3 March 1949) is a Japanese Catholic prelate who has served as Archbishop of Osaka-Takamatsu since 2023. He was previously Archbishop of Osaka from 2014 to 2023 and Bishop of Hiroshima from 2011 to 2014. Pope Francis elevated him to the cardinalate on 28 June 2018.
Biography
Thomas Aquino Manyo Maeda was born in Tsuwasaki, Kami-Goto, in the prefecture of Nagasaki on 3 March 1949. He studied at the Liceo Nanzan of Nagasaki and entered the Major Seminary Saint Sulpice in Fukuoka. He was ordained on 19 March 1975.
He was Secretary General of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Japan from 2006 to 2011.
On 13 June 2011, Pope Benedict XVI appointed him Bishop of Hiroshima and he was consecrated a bishop on 23 September 2011. He participated in the peace movement in Hiroshima and campaigned for the beatification of those called "hidden Christians", 3,400 Nagasaki Christians—more than 600 died—exiled to scattered locations throughout Japan until the middle of the nineteenth century by the Japanese government.
On 20 August 2014, Pope Francis appointed him Archbishop of Osaka.
Since 2016 he has been Vice-President of the Japanese Episcopal Conference.
He writes haiku and incorporates them into his sermons.
Pope Francis made Maeda a cardinal on 28 June 2018, assigning him the titular church of Santa Pudenziana. On 15 August 2023, Cardinal Maeda was named Archbishop of the newly erected Archdiocese of Osaka-Takamatsu.
See also
- Cardinals created by Francis
- Catholic Church in Japan
References
External links
- "Maeda Card. Thomas Aquino Manyo". Holy See Press Office. Archived from the original on 28 June 2018. Retrieved 28 June 2018.
- Diocese of Osaka (in Japanese)
- Miranda, Salvador. "MAEDA, Thomas Aquinas Manyo (1949-)". The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. Florida International University. OCLC 53276621.
