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The Japanese Mission to Europe, 1582–1590; The journey of Four Samurai Boys through Portugal, Spain and Italy. Global Oriental Ltd. ISBN 978-1-901903-38-6. Secretariat, General (2007). "AN OVERVIEW OF THE HISTORY OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN JAPAN, 1543-1944". Catholic Bishops' Conference of Japan; Eishiro, Ito (2007).
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 ]
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 new church, consecrated on May 22, 1879, was the first in Kyushu to be built with brick, as opposed to the original wooden structure. In 1891 it was designated the cathedral of the Catholic Diocese of Nagasaki (now the Catholic Archdiocese of Nagasaki). Ōura Cathedral was designated as a National Treasure in 1933. [5]
The Cathedral of St. Joseph [1] (Japanese: 聖ヨゼフ聖堂) also called St. Joseph's Church [2] is the name given to a historic Catholic church, located in Tsukiji area, Akashi-cho, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan. The temple was consecrated in honor of Saint Joseph. It stands out as the first Catholic church in Tokyo.
Egami Church (江上天主堂, Egami Tenshudō) is a Catholic church in Gotō, Nagasaki, Japan. The church was first constructed in 1918 after the ban on Christianity was lifted. It is often considered one of the finest wooden churches in Japan.
Nunoike Church, officially the Cathedral of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, [1] is the main cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Nagoya in central Japan. Nagoya was first raised as an Apostolic prefecture in 1922 by Fr. Joseph Reiners, who led the congregation until his retirement in 1941.
Located in Kagoshima, Japan, it was named for missionary priest Francis Xavier, who arrived there in August 1549 [3] and founded a Catholic mission. In 1908 the first stone church was built on the site in recognition of their missionary efforts, but was destroyed during World War II , being replaced by a wooden church in 1949 and the present ...