Diocese of Yokohama Dioecesis Yokohamaensis カトリック横浜教区 | |
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 Cathedral of Yokohama | |
| 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 | |
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| 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.