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Peter Yonetaro Matsui

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Peter Yonetaro Matsui
Bishop of Tokyo
ProvinceAnglican Church in Japan
Personal details
Born(1869-05-24)May 24, 1869
Japan
Died16 October 1946(1946-10-16) (aged 77)
Japan

Rt. Revd. Peter Yonetaro Matsui (松井 米太郎) D.D. (died October 16, 1946) was an Anglican bishop of the Diocese of Tokyo, in the Nippon Sei Ko Kai, the Province of the Anglican Communion in Japan.

Studied for two years at Wycliffe College, Toronto[1]

President of Rikkyo University, Tokyo from October 1940 to January 1943.

Supported the controversial position of Bishop John Yasutaro Naide as the Nippon Sei Ko Kai debated its future direction and leadership during the late 1930s and early 1940s. Was replaced as Bishop of Tokyo by Paul Shinji Sasaki in January 1944.[2]

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  1. ^ The History of the Church Missionary Society. London. 1916. p. 352.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  2. ^ Ion, A. Hamilton (1993). The Cross and the Rising Sun. Waterloo, Ontario, Canada: Wilfrid Laurier University Press. p. 311. ISBN 978-1-55458-216-7.