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Roman Catholic Diocese of Sendai

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Rite
  
Latin Rite

Area
  
45,951 km²

Metropolitan archbishop
  
Peter Takeo Okada

Pope
  
Francis

Country
  
Japan

Roman Catholic Diocese of Sendai

Population - Total - Catholics
  
(as of 2010) 7,167,150 10,949 (0.2%)

Cathedral
  
Cathedral of St Peter and St Paul in Sendai

Ecclesiastical province
  
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tokyo

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Sendai (Latin: Sendaiensis, Japanese: カトリック仙台教区) is a diocese located in the city of Sendai in the Ecclesiastical province of Tokyo in Japan.

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History

  • April 17, 1891: Established as Diocese of Hakodate from the Apostolic Vicariate of Northern Japan
  • March 9, 1936: Renamed as Diocese of Sendai

    • Leadership

  • Bishops of Sendai (Roman rite)
  • Bishop Martin Tetsuo Hiraga (マルチノ平賀徹夫) (since 2005.12.10)
  • Bishop Francis Xavier Osamu Mizobe (フランシスコ・ザビエル溝部脩), S.D.B. (2000.05.10 – 2004.05.14)
  • Bishop Raymond Augustin Chihiro Sato (ライムンド佐藤千敬), O.P. (1976.01.24 – 1998.06.19)
  • Bishop Petro Arikata Kobayashi (ペトロ小林有方) (1954.02.21 – 1976.01.24)
  • Bishop Michael Wasaburo Urakawa (ミカエル浦川和三郎) (1941.11.20 – 1954)
  • Archbishop Marie-Joseph Lemieux (マリー・ジョゼフ・ルミュー) (1935.12.03 – 1941.01.16)
  • Bishops of Hakodate (Roman rite)
  • Fr. Andre Dumas, O.P. (Apostolic Administrator 1931 – 1936)
  • Bishop Alexandre Berlioz (アレキサンドル・ベルリオーズ), M.E.P. (1891.04.24 – 1927.07.25)

    • References

    Roman Catholic Diocese of Sendai Wikipedia
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