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The Metropolitan Archdiocese of Tokyo (Latin: Archidioecesis Tokiensis, Japanese: カトリック東京大司教区) is a Latin Church metropolitan archdiocese of the 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 ...
The episcopate of the Catholic Church in Japan consists solely of a Latin hierarchy, joined in the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Japan.. It comprises fifteen ecclesiastical territories, called (arch)dioceses, led by residential prelate bishops:
The Catholic Church in Japan is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the pope in Rome.As of 2021, there were approximately 431,100 Catholics in Japan (0.34% of the total population), 6,200 of whom are clerics, religious and seminarians. [1]
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This is a growing list of territorial dioceses and ordinariates in communion with the Holy See. There are approximately 3,000 actual (i.e., non-titular) dioceses in the Catholic Church (including the eparchies of the Eastern Catholic Churches). Those dioceses which are (metropolitan or nominal) archdioceses (including archeparchies) are marked in bold type and are also listed at List of ...
St. Mary's Cathedral (in Japanese: 東京カテドラル聖マリア大聖堂, romanized: Tōkyō katedoraru sei Maria daiseidō) is the seat of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tokyo. It is located in the Sekiguchi neighborhood of Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan.
Ukraine - Kyiv–Halych (the Major Archdiocese in chief), Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, Ternopil–Zboriv Elsewhere - Przemyśl–Warsaw (Metropolitan of the province in Poland), Winnipeg (Metropolitan of the province in Canada), Philadelphia (Metropolitan of the USA province), São João Batista em Curitiba (Metropolitan of the Brazilian province)