Roman Catholic Diocese of Yokohama

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Yokohama (Latin: Yokohamaen(sis), Japanese: カトリック横浜教区) is a diocese of the Roman Rite of the western Latin Church 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.

Diocese of Yokohama

Dioecesis Yokohamaensis

カトリック横浜教区
Cathedral of Yokohama
Location
CountryJapan
Ecclesiastical provinceTokyo
MetropolitanTokyo
Statistics
Area28,246 km2 (10,906 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics		(as of 2015)
15,763,428
55,723 (0.4%)
Parishes93
Information
Sui iuris churchLatin Church
RiteRoman Rite
Established9 November 1937
CathedralCathedral of the Sacred Heart in Yokohama
Secular priests46 diocesan (and 54 religious)
Current leadership
PopeFrancis
BishopRafael Masahiro Umemura
Metropolitan ArchbishopPeter Takeo Okada
Map

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.[1]

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 the diocese have been:

    • Bishop Rafael Masahiro Umemura (ラファエル梅村昌弘) (since 1999.03.16)
    • Cardinal Stephen Fumio Hamao (ステファノ濱尾文郎) (1979.10.30 – 1998.06.15)
    • Bishop Luke Katsusaburo Arai (ルカ荒井勝三郎) (1951.12.13 – 1979.10.30)
    • Bishop Thomas Asagoro Wakida (トマ脇田浅五郎) (1947.03.25 – 1951.07.05)
    • Cardinal Peter Tatsuo Doi (ペトロ土井辰雄) (Apostolic Administrator 1945 – 1947)
    • Archbishop Jean-Baptiste-Alexis Chambon (ジャン・アレキシス・ジャンボン), M.E.P. (1937.11.09 – 1940.09.18)

See also
  • Roman Catholicism in Japan

Sources

References
  1. "Diocese of Yokohama 横浜, Japan". GCatholic. Retrieved 22 December 2018.



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