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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tokyo

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Ecclesiastical province
  
Pope
  
Auxiliary Bishops
  
James Kazuo Koda

Phone
  
+81 3-3957-2540

Rite
  
Metropolitan Archbishop
  
Area
  
7,316 km²

Country
  
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tokyo

Population- Total- Catholics
  
(as of 2010)19,200,25896,157 (0.5%)

Address
  
1 Chome-28-22 Nagasaki, Toshima, Tokyo 171-0051, Japan

Cathedral
  
Profiles

The Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Tokyo (Latin: Archidioecesis Tokiensis, Japanese: カトリック東京大司教区) is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Japan. It was erected as the Apostolic Vicariate of Japan on May 1, 1846, by Pope Gregory XVI, and its name was later changed by Pope Pius IX to the Apostolic Vicariate of Northern Japan on May 22, 1876.

It was elevated to the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Tokyo by Pope Leo XIII on June 15, 1891, with the suffragan sees of Niigata, Saitama, Sapporo, Sendai, and Yokohama.

Peter Takeo Okada was appointed archbishop on February 17, 2000.

List of ordinaries

  • Théodore-Augustin Forcade, MEP (1846 - 1852)
  • C. Collin ( 1852 - ?)
  • Bernard-Thadée Petitjean, MEP (1866 - 1876)
  • Pierre-Marie Osouf, MEP (1876 - 1906)
  • Pierre-Xavier Mugabure, MEP (1906 - 1910)
  • François Bonne, MEP (1910 - 1912)
  • Jean-Pierre Rey, MEP (1912 - 1926)
  • Jean-Baptiste-Alexis Chambon, MEP (1927 - 1937)
  • (Cardinal) Peter Tatsuo Doi (1937 - 1970)
  • (Cardinal) Peter Seiichi Shirayanagi (1970 - 2000)
  • Peter Takeo Okada (2000 - present)
  • References

    Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tokyo Wikipedia


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