Diocese of Nagoya Dioecesis Nagoyaensis カトリック名古屋教区 | |
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Location | |
Country | Japan |
Territory | Aichi, Ishikawa, Toyama, Gifu, and Fukui |
Ecclesiastical province | Osaka |
Metropolitan | Osaka |
Statistics | |
Area | 28,486 km2 (10,999 sq mi) |
Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2004) 12,409,860 25,380 (0.2%) |
Information | |
Rite | Latin Rite |
Cathedral | Cathedral of St Peter and St Paul in Nagoya |
Current leadership | |
Pope | Francis |
Bishop | Michael Gorō Matsuura[1] |
Metropolitan Archbishop | Thomas Aquino Manyo Maeda |
Bishops emeritus | Augustinus Jun-ichi Nomura |
Map | |
Website | |
http://www.nagoya.catholic.jp/ |
The Diocese of Nagoya (Latin: Dioecesis Nagoyaensis, Japanese: カトリック名古屋教区) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church that is centered in the city of Nagoya and is part of the ecclesiastical province of Osaka in Japan.