The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Nagasaki ( la, Nagasakien(sis), ja, カトリック長崎大司教区) is an

archdiocese In church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop. History In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associate ...

located in the city of

Nagasaki is the capital and the largest city of Nagasaki Prefecture on the island of Kyushu in Japan. It became the sole port used for trade with the Portuguese and Dutch during the 16th through 19th centuries. The Hidden Christian Sites in the ...

in Japan.

History

* May 22, 1876: Established as Apostolic Vicariate of Southern Japan from the Apostolic Vicariate of Japan * June 15, 1891: Promoted as Diocese of Nagasaki * May 4, 1959: Promoted as Metropolitan Archdiocese of Nagasaki * August 9, 1945: The Immaculate Conception Cathedral was destroyed by the second atomic bomb that was dropped over Japan. Many Catholics of Nagasaki died that day inside the church.

Leadership

* Alfonso Pérez de Guzmán (17 May 1627 Appointed - 22 December 1670 Retired) * Bernard-Thadée Petitjean, M.E.P. (22 May 1876 Appointed - 7 October 1884 Died) * Jules-Alphonse Cousin, M.E.P. (16 June 1885 Appointed - 18 September 1911 Died) * Jean-Claude Combaz, M.E.P. (3 June 1912 Appointed - 18 August 1926 Died) *

Januarius Kyunosuke Hayasaka Januarius Kyunosuke Hayasaka (August 14, 1883 – October 26, 1976) was a bishop of the Catholic Church of Showa from Meiji. His baptismal name was "Yanuario". Hayasaka was the first Japanese-ethnicity bishop. He served as a diocesan bi ...

(16 July 1927 Appointed - 5 February 1937 Resigned) * Paul Aijirō Yamaguchi (15 September 1937 Appointed - 19 December 1968 Retired) *(Cardinal)

Joseph Asajiro Satowaki Joseph Asajirô Satowaki (里脇浅次郎 ''Satowaki Asajirō'') (February 1, 1904—August 8, 1996) was a Japanese prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Nagasaki from 1968 to 1990, and was elevated to the cardi ...

(19 December 1968 Appointed - 8 February 1990 Retired) *

Francis Xavier Kaname Shimamoto Francis Xavier Kaname Shimamoto (February 14, 1932 - August 31, 2002) was a bishop of the Catholic Church. His baptismal name was "Francis Xavier". Shimamoto was ordained a Catholic priest on 23 November 1958. In 1979 he was appointed Bishop of th ...

, Ist. del Prado (8 February 1990 Appointed - 31 August 2002 Died) *

Joseph Mitsuaki Takami Joseph Mitsuaki Takami (born 21 March 1946) is a Japanese prelate of the Catholic Church who served as archbishop of Nagasaki from 2003 to 2021. Biography Takami was born in Nagasaki on 21 March 1946. One of his grandmothers, two aunts, and an u ...

, P.S.S. (17 Oct 2003 Appointed - 28 December 2021 Retired) *

Peter Michiaki Nakamura Peter Michiaki Nakamura is a Japanese prelate of the Catholic Church who has been Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Nagasaki, Archdiocese of Nagasaki, Japan, since 2022. He was an auxiliary bishop there from 2019 to 2022. Early lif ...

(28 December 2021 Appointed – present)

Suffragan dioceses

* Fukuoka 福岡 * Kagoshima 鹿児島 * Naha 那覇 * Oita 大分

References

External links

GCatholic.org/GCatholic.org: ''The Metropolitan Archdiocese of Nagasaki, Japan''

Diocese website
* Roman Catholic dioceses in Japan Religious organizations established in 1876 Roman Catholic dioceses and prelatures established in the 19th century Nagasaki 1876 establishments in Japan {{Asia-RC-diocese-stub

History

Leadership

Suffragan dioceses

See also

References

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