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
Metropolitan	Sekiguchi 3-16-15, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112-0014
Statistics
Area	7,316 km2 (2,825 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2004) 18,408,577 89,409 (0.5%)
Information
Rite	Roman Rite
Cathedral	St. Mary's Cathedral
Current leadership
Pope	Benedict XVI
Bishop	Peter Takeo Okada
Auxiliary Bishop	James Kazuo Koda

The Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Tokyo (Latin: Archidioecesis Tokiensis, Japanese: カトリック東京大司教区) is an ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Roman 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.

The current archbishop is His Excellency Peter Takeo Okada, since his appointment on February 17, 2000.

List of Ordinaries of Tokyo

• Théodore-Augustin Forcade, MEP (1846 - 1852)
• C. Collin ( 1852 - ?)
• Bernard-Thadée Petitjean, MEP (1866 - 1876)
• Pierre-Marie Osouf, MEP (1876 - 1906)
• Pierre-Xavier Mugabure, MEP (1906 - 1910)
• François Bonne, MEP (1910 - 1912)
• Jean-Pierre Rey, MEP (1912 - 1926)
• Jean-Baptiste-Alexis Chambon, MEP (1927 - 1937)
• Peter Tatsuo Doi (1937 - 1970)
• Peter Seiichi Shirayanagi (1970 - 2000)
• Peter Takeo Okada (2000 - )

External links

• Official site
• Catholic Bishops' Conference of Japan
• Catholic-Hierarchy
• Giga-Catholic Information

See also

• Roman Catholicism in Japan

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