Bishop Paul Yoshinao Otsuka

Bishop Paul Yoshinao Otsuka, Bishop of Kyōto, was born on October 7, 1954, in Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan, in the Diocese of Kyōto. He was ordained a priest for Kyōto on March 20, 1984, in Kawaramachi Sanjo Agaru. On March 3, 1997, he was appointed Bishop of Kyōto. He received episcopal ordination on June 15, 1997, at Kawaramachi Sanjo Agaru, with Raymond Ken'ichi Tanaka as principal consecrator and Joseph Satoshi Fukahori and Joseph Atsumi Misue as co-consecrators.