Rite Latin Rite Area 33,517 km² Country Japan Metropolitan archbishop Peter Takeo Okada | Pope Francis Phone +81 25-222-5024 Founded 1991 | |
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Population
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- Catholics (as of 2004)
4,850,802
7,711 (0.2%) Cathedral Cathedral of Christ the King in Niigata Address 656 Higashiohatadori 1 Bancho, Chuo Ward, Niigata, Niigata Prefecture 951-8106, Japan Ecclesiastical province Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tokyo Similar カトリック寺尾教会, カトリック新潟教区本部, Kameda Catholic Kindergar, No Mori Kinshi Kindergar, Terao Kindergar | ||
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Niigata (Latin: Niigataën(sis), Japanese: カトリック新潟教区 ) is a diocese located in the city of Niigata in the Ecclesiastical province of Tokyo in Japan.
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This diocese is well known because the apparitions of Our Lady of Akita were within its territory and Bishop John Shojiro Ito from this diocese initially approved the apparitions in 1984. Our Lady of Akita was formally approved in 1988 when Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (later Pope Benedict XVI) as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, gave definitive judgement on the Akita events and messages as reliable and worthy of belief.
History
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