List of Catholic dioceses in Japan

The episcopate of the Catholic Church in Japan consists solely of a Latin hierarchy, joined in the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Japan.

It comprises sixteen ecclesiastical territories, called (arch)dioceses, led by residential prelate bishops:
three archdioceses, led by Metropolitan Archbishops, whose ecclesiastical provinces of the Roman Catholic Church include a total of thirteen suffragan sees.

There are no Eastern Catholic, pre-diocesan or other exempt jurisdictions.

There are no titular sees. All defunct jurisdictions have current successor sees.

There is an Apostolic Nunciature to Japan as papal diplomatic representation at embassy-level in national capital Tokyo.

The gravestone (second from the left), in Melaka's St Paul's Church, of someone identified as Peter (?), the "second bishop of Japan", who died in February 1598

Current Latin dioceses

Ecclesiastical Province of Nagasaki

Ecclesiastical Province of Osaka

Ecclesiastical Province of Tokyo

See also
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