Roman Catholic Diocese of Yokohama explained

Jurisdiction:Diocese
Yokohama
Local:Japanese: カトリック横浜教区
Latin:Dioecesis Yokohamaensis
Country:Japan
Territory:Kanagawa, Shizuoka, Nagano, and Yamanashi
Metropolitan:Tokyo
Province:Tokyo
Cathedral:Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Yokohama
Established:9 November 1937
Area Km2:28,246
Population:15,763,428
Population As Of:2015
Catholics:55,723
Catholics Percent:0.4
Parishes:93
Priests:46 diocesan (and 54 religious)
Sui Iuris Church:Latin Church
Rite:Roman Rite
Bishop:Rafael Masahiro Umemura
Metro Archbishop:Tarcisio Isao Kikuchi
Map:Giappone - Diocesi di Yokohama.png
Website:yokohama.catholic.jp

The Diocese of Yokohama (Latin: Dioecesis Yokohamaensis, Japanese: カトリック横浜教区) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church. Its cathedral is located in the city of Yokohama. It is a suffragan diocese of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tokyo in Japan and therefore in Tokyo's ecclesiastical province.

History

There have been two dioceses in Yokohama. On January 5, 1846, the Apostolic Vicariate of Japan was established.[1] This became the Apostolic Vicariate of Northern Japan in 1876 and then was suppressed in 1891 to establish the Archdiocese of Tokyo.

On November 11, 1937, the Diocese of Yokohama was erected out of territory of the Archdiocese of Tokyo. The new diocese covered eight prefectures of Japan: Kanagawa, Ibaraki, Tochigi, Gumma, Saitama, Yamanashi, Nagano and Shizuoka. On January 4, 1939, four of those prefectures – Saitama, Ibaraki, Tochigi and Gumma – were moved to the newly formed Apostolic Prefecture of Urawa, now the Roman Catholic Diocese of Saitama.

Leadership

The Bishops of the diocese have been:

See also

Sources

References

  1. Web site: Diocese of Yokohama 横浜, Japan . GCatholic . 22 December 2018.

External links

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