Diocese of Yokohama Dioecesis Yokohamaensis カトリック横浜教区 | |
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Location | |
Country | Japan |
Territory | Kanagawa, Shizuoka, Nagano, and Yamanashi |
Ecclesiastical province | Tokyo |
Metropolitan | Tokyo |
Statistics | |
Area | 28,246 km2 (10,906 sq mi) |
Population - Total - Catholics | (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 | Rafael Masahiro Umemura |
Metropolitan Archbishop | Tarcisio Isao Kikuchi |
Map | |
Website | |
yokohama.catholic.jp |
The Diocese of Yokohama (Latin: Dioecesis Yokohamaensis, Japanese: カトリック横浜教区) is a Latin Church diocese 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.