Properties and mechanism of the magnetic phase transition of the perovskite-type Ti oxides, which is driven by the Ti-O-Ti bond angle distortion, are studied theoretically by using the effective spin and pseudo-spin Hamiltonian with strong Coulomb repulsion.It is shown that the A-type antiferromagnetic(AFM(A)) to ferromagnetic(FM) phase transition occurs as the Ti-O-Ti bond angle is decreased. Through this phase transition, the orbital state is hardly changed so that the spin-exchange coupling along the c-axis changes nearly continuously from positive to negative and takes approximately zero at the phase boundary. The resultant strong two-dimensionality in the spin coupling causes a rapid suppression of the critical temperature as is observed experimentally.KEYWORDS: perovskite-type Ti oxides, GdFeO 3 -type distortion, d-level degeneracy, orbital ordering, second-order perturbation theory, A-type antiferromagnetism, Mermin and Wagner's theorem §1. Introduction Perovskite-type Ti oxide RTiO 3 (R being a trivalent rare-earth ion) is a typical MottHubbard insulator 1) . Ti 3+ has a 3d 1 configuration, and one of the three-fold t 2g orbitals is occupied at each transition-metal site. The crystal structure is an orthorhombically distorted perovskite (GdFeO 3 -type distortion) whose unit cell contains four octahedra as shown in Fig. 1. The magnitude of the distortion depends on the ionic radii of the R ion. With a small ionic radius of R ion, the lattice structure is more distorted and the bond angle is