Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tokyo

Archdiocese of Tokyo Archidioecesis Tokiensis カトリック東京大司教区
St. Mary's Cathedral in Tokyo
Location
Country	Japan
Territory	Tokyo and Chiba
Ecclesiastical province	Tokyo
Statistics
Area	7,316 km2 (2,825 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2010) 19,200,258 96,157 (0.5%)
Parishes	75
Information
Sui iuris church	Latin Church
Rite	Roman Rite
Established	April 17, 1891
Cathedral	St. Mary's Cathedral
Secular priests	76
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Metropolitan Archbishop	Tarcisio Isao Kikuchi, S.V.D.
Suffragans	Roman Catholic Diocese of Niigata, Saitama, Sapporo, Sendai, and Yokohama
Auxiliary Bishops	Andrea Lembo, P.I.M.E.
Vicar General	Andrea Lembo, P.I.M.E.
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Website
https://tokyo.catholic.jp/en/

The Metropolitan Archdiocese of Tokyo (Latin: Archidioecesis Tokiensis, Japanese: カトリック東京大司教区) is a Latin Church metropolitan archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Japan. It was erected as the Apostolic Vicariate of Japan on May 1, 1846, by Pope Gregory XVI, and its name was later changed by Pope Pius IX to the Apostolic Vicariate of Northern Japan on May 22, 1876.

It was elevated to the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Tokyo by Pope Leo XIII on June 15, 1891, with the suffragan sees of Niigata, Saitama, Sapporo, Sendai, and Yokohama.

Tarcisio Isao Kikuchi, S.V.D.,^[1] previously serving as Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Niigata,^[1] was appointed Archbishop of the Tokyo Archdiocese on October 25, 2017.^[1]