Roman Catholic Diocese of Kagoshima

Diocese of Kagoshima

*Dioecesis Kagoshimaensis*

カトリック鹿児島教区
Diocese of Kagoshima; Dioecesis Kagoshimaensis; カトリック鹿児島教区
	St. Francis Xavier Cathedral
Location
Country	Japan
Ecclesiastical province	Nagasaki 長崎
Metropolitan	Nagasaki 長崎
Statistics
Area	9,187 km2 (3,547 sq mi)
Population; - Total; - Catholics (including non-members)	(as of 2011); 1,698,500; 9,281 (0.5%)
Information
Rite	Latin Rite
Cathedral	St Francis Xavier Cathedral in Kagoshima
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop
Metropolitan Archbishop	Joseph Mitsuaki Takami
Bishops emeritus	Paul Shinichi Itonaga Bishop Emeritus (1970-2005)
Map
Website
	Website of the Diocese

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.

Its episcopal see is the 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

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)

? 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)
(3 December 2005 - ... )