Francis Xavier Kaname Shimamoto


Francis Xavier Kaname Shimamoto was a bishop of the Catholic Church. His baptismal name was "Francis Xavier". Shimamoto was ordained a Catholic priest on 23 November 1958. In 1979 he was appointed Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Urawa and consecrated on 20 March 1980. In 1990 Pope John Paul II appointed him Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Nagasaki. On 31 August 2002 Shimamoto died.