The Cathedral of St. Francis Xavier ( ja, 聖フランシスコ・デ・ザビエル司教座聖堂), also called Kawaramachi Church, is a parish of the

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of the Catholic Church in the city of Kyoto, and cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kyoto in

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. It has served as the seat, or

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, of the Roman Catholic Bishop of Kyoto since the cathedral's construction was completed and the church dedicated in November 1972. The diocese (''Dioecesis Kyotensis'' カトリック京都教区) had been erected in 1951 by

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through the papal bull ''"Inter supremi"''. It is under the pastoral responsibility of the Bishop

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. Masses are offered in Japanese and English.

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