Roman Catholic Diocese of Yokohama

Diocese of Yokohama

*Dioecesis Yokohamaensis*

カトリック横浜教区
Diocese of Yokohama; Dioecesis Yokohamaensis; カトリック横浜教区
	Cathedral of Yokohama
Location
Country	Japan
Ecclesiastical province	Tokyo
Metropolitan	Tokyo
Statistics
Area	28,246 km2 (10,906 sq mi)
Population; - Total; - Catholics (including non-members)	(as of 2015); 15,763,428; 55,723 (0.4%)
Parishes	93
Information
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	9 November 1937
Cathedral	Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Yokohama
Secular priests	46 diocesan (and 54 religious)
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop
Metropolitan Archbishop	Peter Takeo Okada
Map
Website
	yokohama.catholic.jp

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Yokohama (Latin: Yokohamaen(sis), Japanese: カトリック横浜教区) is a diocese of the Roman Rite of the western Latin Church of the Catholic Church. Its cathedral is located in the city of Yokohama. It is a suffragan diocese of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tokyo in Japan and therefore in Tokyo's ecclesiastical province.

History[]

There have been two dioceses in Yokohama. On January 5, 1846, the Apostolic Vicariate of Japan was established.^[1] This became the Apostolic Vicariate of Northern Japan in 1876 and then was suppressed in 1891 to establish the Archdiocese of Tokyo.^[1]

On November 11, 1937, the Diocese of Yokohama was erected out of territory of the Archdiocese of Tokyo. The new diocese covered eight prefectures of Japan: Kanagawa, Ibaraki, Tochigi, Gumma, Saitama, Yamanashi, Nagano and Shizuoka. On January 4, 1939, four of those prefectures – Saitama, Ibaraki, Tochigi and Gumma – were moved to the newly formed Apostolic Prefecture of Urawa, now the Roman Catholic Diocese of Saitama.

Leadership[]

The Bishops the diocese have been:

- Bishop Rafael Masahiro Umemura (ラファエル梅村昌弘) (since 1999.03.16)
- Cardinal Stephen Fumio Hamao (ステファノ濱尾文郎) (1979.10.30 – 1998.06.15)
- Bishop (ルカ荒井勝三郎) (1951.12.13 – 1979.10.30)
- Bishop (トマ脇田浅五郎) (1947.03.25 – 1951.07.05)
- Cardinal Peter Tatsuo Doi (ペトロ土井辰雄) (Apostolic Administrator 1945 – 1947)
- Archbishop (ジャン・アレキシス・ジャンボン), M.E.P. (1937.11.09 – 1940.09.18)