John Yasutaro Naide (名出保太郎) D.D. (December 22, 1866 – 1945) was an

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of the Diocese of Osaka, in the

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, the

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of the

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in Japan. He was born in

Wakayama Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region of Honshu. Wakayama Prefecture has a population of 944,320 () and has a geographic area of . Wakayama Prefecture borders Osaka Prefecture to the north, and Mie Prefecture and Nara Prefecture ...

. Naide served as a delegate to the first synod of the

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in 1887. He was consecrated on December 11, 1923 as one of the first two Japanese bishops in the

and the first Japanese Bishop of Osaka. Naide had previously served as Rector at Kawaguchi Christ Church and of Christ Church, Osaka. As Bishop of Osaka Naide succeeded the joint appointment of an American

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and

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. Bishop

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preached at his consecration. In 1924 Naide was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Divinity by the

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. At the House of Bishops meeting in December 1937, Naide was elected chairman of the General Synod and president of the Executive Council of the Nippon Sei Ko Kai. In October 1942, in the face of

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Japanese government pressure for the church to join the Protestant

United Church of Christ in Japan The United Church of Christ in Japan (UCCJ; ja, 日本基督教団 ''Nihon Kirisuto Kyōdan'', or ''Kyōdan'' for short) is the largest Protestant denomination in Japan. It is a union of thirty-three diverse Protestant denominations forcibly mer ...

or Kyodan, Naide took the controversial decision to dissolve the Nippon Sei Ko Kai in his own diocese, publicly announcing in January 1943 that it had ceased to exist. Wartime nationalism and government pressure impacted the mission of many Christian churches in Japan during the 1930s and 1940s. Naide maintained his view that the Nippon Sei Ko Kai should be a national Christian church led by a cadre of Japanese bishops, an aim realised in 1947, two years after the end of the war and Naide's death in 1945.

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Japanese Anglican bishops Anglican Church in Japan 1866 births 1945 deaths People from Wakayama Prefecture Anglican bishops of Osaka {{Anglican-bishop-stub

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