{{Short description|Japanese Catholic Cardinal (1892–1970)}} {{Infobox Christian leader | type = Cardinal | honorific-prefix =His Eminence | name = Peter Doi | honorific-suffix = | title = Cardinal, Archbishop of Tokyo | image = Archbishop Peter Doi in 1938.jpg | caption = Doi in 1938 | province = | diocese = | see = Tokyo | enthroned = 2 December 1937 | ended = 21 February 1970 | predecessor = Jean-Alexis Chambon, MEP | successor = Peter Shirayanagi | ordination = 1 May 1921 | consecration = 13 February 1938 | cardinal = 28 March 1960 | created_cardinal_by = John XXIII | rank = | other_post = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|1892|12|22|df=y}} | birth_place = Sendai, Miyagi, Japan | death_date = {{death date and age|1970|2|21|1892|12|22|df=y}} | death_place = Tokyo, Japan | buried = | nationality = | religion = | residence = | parents = | spouse = | children = | occupation = | profession = | alma_mater = | signature = | motto = {{langnf|la|A solis ortu|From the rising of the sun|break=yes}} }}
{{infobox cardinalstyles| cardinal name=Peter Doi| dipstyle=His Eminence| offstyle=Your Eminence| See=Tokyo| image=Coat of arms of Peter Tatsuo Doi.svg| image_size=200px|}} '''Peter Tatsuo Doi''' (土井 辰雄 ''Doi Tatsuo'') (22 December 1892 – 21 February 1970) was a Japanese prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Tokyo from 1937 until his death in 1970, and was made a cardinal in 1960.
== Biography == Doi Tatsuo was born in Sendai.<ref name="nussbaum157">Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2002). [https://books.google.com/books?id=p2QnPijAEmEC&pg=PA157 "Doi Tatsuo"] in ''Japan Encyclopedia,'' p. 157.</ref> He was baptized at the age of nine, on 21 April 1902, with the baptismal name of Peter. He studied at the seminary in Sendai and the Pontifical Urbaniana University in Rome.
Doi was ordained to the priesthood on 1 May 1921. Doi then did pastoral work in Sendai until 1934, when he was made Secretary of the Apostolic Delegation to Japan.
On 2 December 1937, Doi was appointed Archbishop of Tokyo by Pope Pius XI. He received his episcopal consecration on 13 February 1938 from Archbishop Jean-Alexis Chambon, MEP, with Bishops Paul Aijiro Yamaguchi and Marie-Joseph Lemieux serving as co-consecrators. During World War II, Doi served as executive director of the National Catholic Central Committee. He was Apostolic Administrator of Yokohama from 1945 to 1947.
Pope John XXIII created him Cardinal Priest of ''S. Antonio da Padova in Via Merulana'' in the consistory of 28 March 1960.<ref>[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1960/03/04/105420922.pdf "Sketches of Six of the Cardinals-Designate; Japanese Named Has Been Archbishop Since 1937,"] ''New York Times'', 4 March 1960; [http://www.gcatholic.org/churches/cardinal/114.htm Cardinal Title S. Antonio da Padova in Via Merulana] GCatholic.org; retrieved 28 October 2011.</ref> Doi, hoped by the Vatican to enliven the Church in Japan,<ref>TIME Magazine. [https://web.archive.org/web/20070930190937/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,871562,00.html "Seven New Hats"], 14 March 1960.</ref> thus became the first Japanese member of the College of Cardinals. A celebration of this event was held at the St. Ignatius church in Tokyo, a church which was dedicated by Doi in 1949.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Kōjimachi Catholic Church |url=https://tokyo.catholic.jp/en/parishes/tokyo/kojimachi/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230628133941/https://tokyo.catholic.jp/en/parishes/tokyo/kojimachi/ |archive-date=2023-06-28 |access-date=2023-07-06 |website=Catholic Archdiocese of Tokyo |language=en}}</ref> He attended the Second Vatican Council from 1962 to 1965, and was later one of the cardinal electors who participated in the 1963 papal conclave that selected Pope Paul VI.
Doi died in Tokyo, aged 77. He is buried in St. Mary's Cathedral.
Doi, along with Stefan Wyszyński, assisted Paul Peter Meouchi in delivering one of the closing messages of the Second Vatican Council on 8 December 1965.<ref>Christus Rex. [http://www.christusrex.org/www1/CDHN/v19.html To the Poor, the Sick and the Suffering.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070403055431/http://www.christusrex.org/www1/CDHN/v19.html |date=2007-04-03 }}</ref>
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== External links == * {{cite web|authorlink=Salvador Miranda (historian) |last=Miranda |first=Salvador |title=DOI, Peter Tatsuo (1892-1970)|url=https://cardinals.fiu.edu/bios1960.htm#Doi|work=The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church |accessdate=|publisher=Florida International University|oclc=53276621}} * [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bdoi.html Catholic-Hierarchy] [[Wikipedia:SPS|{{sup|[''self-published'']}}]]
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