Roman Catholic Diocese of Yokohama

Diocese of Yokohama

*Dioecesis Yokohamaensis*

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

History

There have been two dioceses in Yokohama. On January 5, 1846, the Apostolic Vicariate of Japan was established.^[1] This became the Apostolic Vicariate of Northern Japan in 1876 and then was suppressed in 1891 to establish the Archdiocese of Tokyo.^[1]

On November 11, 1937, the Diocese of Yokohama was erected out of territory of the Archdiocese of Tokyo. The new diocese covered eight prefectures of Japan: Kanagawa, Ibaraki, Tochigi, Gumma, Saitama, Yamanashi, Nagano and Shizuoka. On January 4, 1939, four of those prefectures – Saitama, Ibaraki, Tochigi and Gumma – were moved to the newly formed Apostolic Prefecture of Urawa, now the Roman Catholic Diocese of Saitama.

The Bishops of the diocese have been: