{"id":7573,"date":"2026-11-10T12:01:39","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T03:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evangeliinetworkjapan.org\/?p=7573"},"modified":"2026-11-10T12:01:39","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T03:01:39","slug":"hiroshima-diocese-announces-nuncio-consultations-on-14-15-november-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evangeliinetworkjapan.org\/vi\/2026\/11\/10\/hiroshima-diocese-announces-nuncio-consultations-on-14-15-november-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiroshima Diocese Announces Nuncio Consultations on 14\u201315 November 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<section lang=\"ja\" class=\"enj-ja-summary\">\n<h2>\u65e5\u672c\u8a9e\u8981\u7d04<\/h2>\n<p>\u5e83\u5cf6\u6559\u533a\u306f2026\u5e7411\u670814\u65e5\u30fb15\u65e5\u3001\u99d0\u65e5\u6559\u7687\u5927\u4f7f\u30d5\u30e9\u30f3\u30b7\u30b9\u30b3\u30fb\u30a8\u30b9\u30ab\u30e9\u30f3\u30c6\u30fb\u30e2\u30ea\u30fc\u30ca\u5927\u53f8\u6559\u3092\u8fce\u3048\u3001\u65b0\u3057\u3044\u53f8\u6559\u306e\u9078\u51fa\u306b\u5411\u3051\u305f\u96c6\u3044\u3092\u5e83\u5cf6\u30ab\u30c8\u30ea\u30c3\u30af\u4f1a\u9928\u3067\u958b\u304d\u307e\u3059\u3002\u6559\u533a\u306e\u516c\u5f0f\u6848\u5185\u306b\u3088\u308b\u3068\u3001\u3053\u308c\u306f\u6559\u533a\u306e\u73fe\u72b6\u3084\u5f8c\u4efb\u53f8\u6559\u306b\u6c42\u3081\u3089\u308c\u308b\u8cc7\u8cea\u306b\u3064\u3044\u3066\u610f\u898b\u3092\u8074\u304f\u305f\u3081\u306e\u96c6\u3044\u3067\u3001\u6295\u7968\u3067\u306f\u3042\u308a\u307e\u305b\u3093\u3002<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p>The Diocese of Hiroshima will welcome the Apostolic Nuncio to Japan, Archbishop Francisco Escalante Molina, on 14 and 15 November 2026 (Japan Standard Time, UTC+9) for consultations toward selecting a new bishop. The meetings will be held at Hiroshima Catholic Hall.<\/p>\n<p>In a 22 September 2026 pastoral letter, Bishop Alexis Mitsuru Shirahama said a worsening hearing disability had made his ministry increasingly difficult. After a December 2025 medical examination, and under canon 401 \u00a72, he submitted his resignation as diocesan bishop in March 2026. He wrote that the Nuncio announced at the 21 September Diocese Day Mass that Pope Leo XIV had formally accepted the resignation, and that he will continue in office until a successor is appointed and installed.<\/p>\n<p>A 16 October notice from Vicar General Francisco Xavier Toyoki Harada calls the meetings a first stage of consultation, not an evaluation of the outgoing bishop or a vote on his successor. The appointment of a bishop belongs to the Holy See. The Nuncio is seeking views on the diocese\u2019s situation, its needs, and the qualities most needed in the next bishop. In a 19 August letter, the Archdiocese of Osaka-Takamatsu announced similar consultations for 10\u201311 October.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/hiroshima.catholic.jp\/post-3072\/\">Diocese of Hiroshima: notice of the Nuncio\u2019s gatherings (14\u201315 November)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/hiroshima.catholic.jp\/hwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/20260921.pdf\">Diocese of Hiroshima: pastoral letter of Bishop Alexis Mitsuru Shirahama (22 September 2026)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ostk.catholic.jp\/diocesan_notification\/20260819\/4112\/\">Archdiocese of Osaka-Takamatsu: Archbishop Maeda\u2019s letter on similar consultations (19 August 2026)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u65e5\u672c\u8a9e\u8981\u7d04 \u5e83\u5cf6\u6559\u533a\u306f2026\u5e7411\u670814\u65e5\u30fb15\u65e5\u3001\u99d0\u65e5\u6559\u7687\u5927\u4f7f\u30d5\u30e9\u30f3\u30b7\u30b9\u30b3\u30fb\u30a8\u30b9\u30ab\u30e9\u30f3\u30c6\u30fb\u30e2\u30ea\u30fc\u30ca\u5927\u53f8\u6559\u3092\u8fce\u3048\u3001\u65b0\u3057\u3044\u53f8\u6559\u306e\u9078\u51fa\u306b\u5411\u3051\u305f\u96c6\u3044\u3092\u5e83\u5cf6\u30ab\u30c8\u30ea\u30c3\u30af\u4f1a\u9928\u3067\u958b\u304d\u307e\u3059\u3002\u6559\u533a\u306e\u516c\u5f0f\u6848\u5185\u306b\u3088\u308b\u3068\u3001\u3053\u308c\u306f\u6559\u533a\u306e\u73fe\u72b6\u3084\u5f8c\u4efb\u53f8\u6559\u306b\u6c42\u3081\u3089\u308c\u308b\u8cc7\u8cea\u306b\u3064\u3044\u3066\u610f\u898b\u3092\u8074\u304f\u305f\u3081\u306e\u96c6\u3044\u3067\u3001\u6295\u7968\u3067\u306f\u3042\u308a\u307e\u305b\u3093\u3002 The Diocese of Hiroshima will welcome the Apostolic Nuncio to Japan, Archbishop Francisco Escalante Molina, on 14 and 15 November<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","nfd_image_url":"","nfd_onboarding_generated":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[157],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trending-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evangeliinetworkjapan.org\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evangeliinetworkjapan.org\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evangeliinetworkjapan.org\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evangeliinetworkjapan.org\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evangeliinetworkjapan.org\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.evangeliinetworkjapan.org\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7574,"href":"https:\/\/www.evangeliinetworkjapan.org\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7573\/revisions\/7574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evangeliinetworkjapan.org\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evangeliinetworkjapan.org\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evangeliinetworkjapan.org\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}