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Bishop Alexis Mitsuru Shirahama

Bishop of Hiroshima

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Born
May 20, 1962 Kamigotō, Minamimatsuura district, Japan
Nationality
Japan
Ordained priest
Mar 19, 1990 10-34 Ueno-machi, Japan
Ordained bishop
Sep 19, 2016 Hiroshima, Japan
Appointed
Sep 19, 2016
Principal consecrator
Thomas Aquino Manyo Maeda
Co-consecrators
Joseph Mitsuaki Takami Paul Yoshinao Otsuka

Bishop Alexis Mitsuru Shirahama, P.S.S., Bishop of Hiroshima, was born on May 20, 1962, in Kamigotō, Minamimatsuura district, Japan, in the Diocese of Nagasaki. He made his perpetual profession on January 1, 1993. He was ordained a priest for Nagasaki on March 19, 1990. On June 28, 2016, he was appointed Bishop of Hiroshima. He received episcopal ordination on September 19, 2016, at Hiroshima, with Thomas Aquino Manyo Maeda as principal consecrator and Joseph Mitsuaki Takami and Paul Yoshinao Otsuka as co-consecrators.