Joseph Sakunoshin Motoda
Japanese Anglican bishop (1862–1928)
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The Right Reverend Joseph Sakunoshin Motoda (22 February 1862 – 16 April 1928, 元田 作之進) was the first Japanese born Bishop of Tokyo in the Nippon Sei Ko Kai, the Anglican Church in Japan.
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| Born | 22 February 1862 Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan |
| Died | 16 April 1928 (aged 66) Tokyo, Japan |
Education and Church Ministry
Joseph Sakunoshin Motoda was ordained in America in 1893. He studied variously at Kenyon College, the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University. Motoda obtained a Doctorate in Philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania in 1895 and was granted a Doctorate in Divinity from the Philadelphia Divinity School in 1916.[1]
Motoda later became the first person of Japanese heritage to become an Anglican Bishop, when he was consecrated as Bishop of Tokyo on 7 December 1923.[2] Motoda advocated for the education of a native ministry and for an increasingly autonomous national church in Japan.
During the course of his studies and church ministry, Motoda travelled extensively. A frequent visitor to the United States, Motoda also travelled with the Rev. Tasuku Harada in 1905 to India as a guest of the Indian YMCA.[3] During a visit to England in 1928 he preached at Canterbury Cathedral.
Motoda also served as President of St Paul's College, Tokyo.