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
Ecclesiastical province	Tokyo
Statistics
Area
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2010) 19,200,258 96,157 (0.5%)
Information
Rite	Roman Rite
Cathedral	St. Mary's Cathedral
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Metropolitan Archbishop	Peter Takeo Okada
Auxiliary Bishops	James Kazuo Koda
Vicar General	James Kazuo Koda
Emeritus Bishops	Paul Kazuhiro Mori Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus (1985-2000)
Map
Website
Website of the Archdiocese

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.

Peter Takeo Okada was appointed archbishop on February 17, 2000.

List of ordinaries

• 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)
• (Cardinal) Peter Tatsuo Doi (1937 - 1970)
• (Cardinal) Peter Seiichi Shirayanagi (1970 - 2000)
• Peter Takeo Okada (2000 - present)

External links

• Official site
• Catholic Bishops' Conference of Japan
• Catholic-Hierarchy
• GCatholic.org

See also

• Roman Catholicism in Japan