Diocese of Yokohama 横浜
Yokohamaën(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Yokohama 横浜, Japan
The Diocese of Yokohama is a Latin Catholic diocese in Japan erected in 1937 from the Archdiocese of Tokyo, covering Kanagawa, Shizuoka, Nagano, and Yamanashi. It is a suffragan of Tokyo and is led by Bishop Raphael Masahiro Umemura.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 9 November 1937
- Latin
- Yokohamaën(sis)
- Annuario code
- 001000207
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 55,723
- Population
- 15,763,428
- Catholic share
- 0.4%
- Priests
- 46
- Catholics per priest
- 1,211
- Extent
- 28,246 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 2.0
of the people living within its bounds
Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.
The bishop
- Bishop
- Rafael Masahiro Umemura
- Born
- 14 June 1952
- Birthplace
- Yokohama
A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.
The cathedral
Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, Yokohama stands in Yokohama 横浜, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
The province of Tokyo
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Tokyo.
The sees of this province:
- Diocese of Niigata 新潟Niigata 新潟
- Diocese of Saitama さいたまSaitama さいたま
- Diocese of Sapporo 札幌Sapporo 札幌
- Diocese of Sendai 仙台Sendai 仙台
- Archdiocese of Tokyo 東京Tokyo 東京
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
With its cathedral in the city of Yokohama, 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. As a suffragan of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tokyo in Japan, it belongs to Tokyo's ecclesiastical province.
What is kept by invitation
The record above is published because it is public: what this see is, when it was erected, who holds its chair, and where it stands among its neighbours.
The working record is not. The chancery's address, telephone and email, the clergy of the see, and the hours of Mass, confession and adoration in the parishes within it are kept for members, and a person reads every request.
Sources
The see's own website · Wikipedia
This record is compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. On the method, see the keeping of the record. Whoever finds an error is asked, in charity, to write: [email protected].