Diocese of Hiroshima 広島

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The Diocese of Hiroshima is a Latin rite see in western Honshu, Japan, established as an apostolic vicariate in 1923 and raised to a diocese in 1959. Suffragan to the Archdiocese of Osaka-Takamatsu, its cathedral is the World Peace Memorial Cathedral, led since 2016 by Bishop Alexis Mitsuru Shirahama.

Bishop
Alexis Mitsuru Shirahama
Latin name
Hiroshimaën(sis)
Erected
30 June 1959 (origins 1923)
Cathedral
Cathedral of the Assumption of Mary (World Peace Memorial Cathedral)
Rank
Suffragan Diocese
Rite
Latin
Province
Osaka-Takamatsu (Archdiocese of Osaka-Takamatsu)
Catholics
21,496
Chancery
Bishop’s House, 4-42 Nobori-cho, Naka-ku, Hiroshima-shi 730-0016, Japan
Telephone
Tel. [082]221.6017; fax 221.6019
Email
[email protected]

Contact as printed in the Annuario Pontificio.

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Sources: wikidata-p488 · Annuario code 001001596 · ontology v0.3.2 · updated 2026-06-08

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