Ecclesiastical province Tokyo Pope Francis Auxiliary Bishops James Kazuo Koda Phone +81 3-3957-2540 | Rite Roman Rite Metropolitan Archbishop Peter Takeo Okada Area 7,316 km² Country Japan | |
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Population
- Total
- Catholics (as of 2010)
19,200,258
96,157 (0.5%) Address 1 Chome-28-22 Nagasaki, Toshima, Tokyo 171-0051, Japan Cathedral St. Mary's Cathedral, Tokyo 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
References
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