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Roman Catholic Diocese of Kagoshima

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Rite
  
Latin Rite

Area
  
9,187 km²

Metropolitan archbishop
  
Joseph Mitsuaki Takami

Pope
  
Francis

Country
  
Japan

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Population - Total - Catholics
  
(as of 2011) 1,698,500 9,281 (0.5%)

Cathedral
  
St Francis Xavier Cathedral in Kagoshima

Emeritus Bishops
  
Paul Shinichi Itonaga Bishop Emeritus (1970-2005)

Ecclesiastical province
  
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Nagasaki

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Kagoshima (Latin: Kagoshimaen(sis), Japanese: カトリック鹿児島教区) is a suffragan Latin diocese in the Ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archbishop of Nagasaki 長崎, in southern Japan.

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Its catedral episcopal see is Cathedral of St. Francis Xavier (Xavier Church), in the city of Kagoshima.

History

  • Established on March 18, 1927 as Apostolic Prefecture of Kagoshima, an exempt missionary pre-diocesan jurisdiction, on territory split off from the then Diocese of Nagasaki (now its Metropolitan)
  • On 27 March 1927 it lost territory to establish the Mission sui juris of Miyazaki 宮崎
  • In 1947 it lost territory (the Ryukyu Islands) to establish the Apostolic Administration of Okinawa and the Southern Islands 琉球列島
  • Promoted on February 25, 1955 as Diocese of Kagoshima, hence no longer directly subject to the Holy See

    • Ordinaries

    (all Roman Rite)

    Apostolic Prefects of Kagoshima
  • Egide Marie Roy (エジド・ロア), Friars Minor (O.F.M.) (1929.05.11 – death 1936)
  • Francis Xavier Ichitaro Ideguchi (フランシスコ出口一太郎) (1940.06.10 – death 1955), previously Apostolic Administrator of Apostolic Prefecture of Miyazaki 宮崎 (Japan) (1940 – 1945.11.18)
    • Suffragan Bishops of Kagoshima
  •  ? Paul Aijirô Yamaguchi † (9 November 1936 - 15 September 1937)
  • Joseph Asjiro Satowaki † (25 February 1955 - 19 December 1968), later Metropolitan Archbishop of Nagasaki 長崎 (Japan) (1968.12.19 – 1990.02.08), President of Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Japan (1978 – 1983), created Cardinal-Priest of S. Maria della Pace (1979.06.30 – death 1996.08.08)
  • Paul Shinichi Itonaga (15 November 1969 - 3 December 2005)
  • Paul Kenjiro Koriyama (3 December 2005 - ... )

    • References

    Roman Catholic Diocese of Kagoshima Wikipedia
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