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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tokyo

Coordinates: 35°42′N 139°43′E / 35.700°N 139.717°E / 35.700; 139.717
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Archdiocese of Tokyo

Archidioecesis Tokiensis

カトリック東京大司教区
St. Mary's Cathedral in Tokyo
Location
CountryJapan
Ecclesiastical provinceTokyo
Statistics
Area7,316 km2 (2,825 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics		(as of 2010)
19,200,258
96,157 (0.5%)
Information
RiteRoman Rite
CathedralSt. Mary's Cathedral
Current leadership
PopeFrancis
Metropolitan ArchbishopTarcisio Isao Kikuchi, S.V.D.
Auxiliary BishopsJames Kazuo Koda
Vicar GeneralJames Kazuo Koda
Bishops emeritusPaul Kazuhiro Mori Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus (1985-2000)
Map
Website
Website of the Archdiocese

The Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archdiocese of Tokyo (Template:Lang-la, Template:Lang-ja) 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.

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

History

The Evangelization of Japan starts in 1549 with the arrival of St.Francis Xavier and goes on until 1587 when Toyotomi Hideyoshi issued the edict forbidding Christianity and orders all missionaries to leave Japan.

In the following years of persecution, also in Edo (actual Tokyo), there were cases of martyrdom in 1612 and 1623.

After the “seclusion period”, the first missionaries of the Paris Mission Society arrived in Japan in 1858 and were stationed in the three ports of Nagasaki, Yokohama and Hakodate.

In 1876 the mission of Japan was divided in two Apostolic Vicariates: Southern Japan with the center in Nagasaki and Northern Japan with the center in Tokyo.

The first Vicar Apostolic of Northern Japan was Mgr. Pierre Marie Osouf.

On April 17, 1891. the Vicariate Apostolic of Northern Japan was divided into the Archdiocese of Tokyo and the Diocese of Hakodate, and Mgr. Osouf was appointed the first Archbishop of Tokyo.

On August 13, 1912, the Archdiocese of Tokyo ceded the prefectures of Toyama, Fukui and Ishikawa to the newly established Prefecture Apostolic of Niigata, and on February 18, 1922, the prefectures of Aichi and Gifu were ceded to the newly established Prefecture Apostolic of Nagoya.

In November 1937, Tokyo was entrusted to the Japanese clergy and confined to Tokyo-to and the prefecture of Chiba. The remaining territory was detached to form the Diocese of Yokohama.

The first Archbishop selected among the Japanese clergy was Archbishop Peter Tatsu Doi.[2]

List of ordinaries

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c http://en.radiovaticana.va/news/2017/10/25/pope_appoints_a_new_bishop_to_archdiocese_of_tokyo,_japan/1345070
  2. ^ http://tokyo.catholic.jp/english/archdiocese_en/
Wikisource has the text of the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia article Tokio.

35°42′N 139°43′E / 35.700°N 139.717°E / 35.700; 139.717

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