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The ''Nippon Sei Ko Kai'' ( ja, 日本聖公会, translit=Nippon Seikōkai, lit=Japanese Holy Catholic Church), abbreviated as NSKK, sometimes referred to in English as the Anglican Episcopal Church in Japan, is the national
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church representing the Province of
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(, ) within the Anglican Communion. As a member of the Anglican Communion the Nippon Sei Ko Kai shares many of the historic doctrinal and liturgical practices of the Church of England, but is a fully autonomous national church governed by its own
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and led by its own primate. The Nippon Sei Ko Kai, in common with other churches in the Anglican Communion, considers itself to be a part of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church and to be both Catholic and
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. With an estimated 80 million members worldwide, the Anglican Communion is the third largest
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communion in the world, after the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Churches. The Nippon Sei Ko Kai has approximately 32,000 members organised into eleven dioceses and found in local church congregations throughout Japan.


History


Background (1549–1846)

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Francis Xavier together with Portuguese explorers and missionaries first brought Christianity to Japan in the 16th century. In 1587, the Christian faith and life were outlawed and Christians, Japanese and foreign, were openly persecuted. In memory of these early Japanese Christians, and in common with the Roman Catholic Church, the Nippon Sei Ko Kai commemorates the Martyrs of Japan every February 5 for their life and witness. All foreigners were subsequently expelled in 1640 as Japan began two centuries of self-imposed isolation and Christian communities were driven into hiding. When foreigners were eventually allowed back into the main islands of Japan in the 1850s, they found thousands of Christians who had maintained their Christian faith and identity through centuries of persecution.


Early mission church (1846–1900)

Anglican church mission work in Japan started with the British
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on the outlying Ryukyu Islands in May 1846. George Jones, a United States Navy chaplain traveling with the Expedition of Commodore Perry, led the first recorded Anglican burial service on Japanese soil at Yokohama on 9 March 1854. More permanent mission priests of the Episcopal Church,
John Liggins Rev. John Liggins (11 May 1829 – 8 January 1912) was an English-born Episcopalian missionary to China and Japan. The first Protestant missionary and ordained representative of Anglican Communion to reach Japan, together with his seminary c ...
and Channing Moore Williams, arrived in the treaty port of Nagasaki in May and June 1859. After the opening of the port of Yokohama in June 1859, Anglicans in the foreign community gathered for worship services in the British consul's residence. A British consular chaplain,
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, arrived in August 1862 and after a successful fundraising campaign Christ Church, Yokohama, was dedicated on 18 October 1863. Due to government restrictions on the teaching of Christianity and a significant language barrier, the religious duties of clergy were initially limited to serving as ministers to the American and British residents of the foreign settlements. The first recorded baptism by Williams of a Japanese convert, a Kumamoto samurai named Shōmura Sukeuemon, was not until 1866. Liggins and Williams were followed to Nagasaki in January 1869 by George Ensor, a priest representing the
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of the Church of England. Following 1874, he was joined by H. Burnside at Nagasaki, C. F. Warren at Osaka, Philip Fyson at Yokohama, J. Piper at Tokyo (Yedo), H. Evington at Niigata and W. Dening at Hokkaido. H. Maundrell joined the Japan mission in 1875 and served at Nagasaki. John Batchelor was a missionary priest to the
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of Hokkaido from 1877 to 1941. After the Meiji Restoration, significant new legislation relating to the freedom of religion was introduced, facilitating in September 1873, the arrival in Tokyo of Alexander Croft Shaw and William Ball Wright as the first missionary priests sent to Japan by the
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. Williams, appointed Episcopal Bishop of China and Japan in 1866, moved first to reside in Osaka in 1869, then subsequently relocated to Tokyo in December 1873. By 1879, through cooperative work between the various Anglican missions, the largest part of the Book of Common Prayer had been translated and published in Japanese. A full version of the text being completed by 1882. On Palm Sunday 1883, Nobori Kanai and Masakazu Tai, graduates of the Tokyo theological school were ordained by Bishop Williams as the first Japanese deacons in the church. In 1888, the
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also began missionary work in Japan, later mainly focusing on Nagoya and
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. In addition to the work of ordained church ministers, much of the positive public profile enjoyed by Anglican Church in Japan during this early mission period was due to the work of lay missionaries working to establish schools, universities and medical facilities. Significant among this group were missionary women such as Ellen G. Eddy at St. Agnes' School in Osaka, Alice Hoar at St. Hilda's School and Florence Pitman at St. Margaret's School, both located in Tokyo. Hannah Riddell who established the Kaishun Hospital for leprosy sufferers in Kumamoto and
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who ran a similar facility in Kusatsu, Gunma, were both honored by the Japanese Government for their work. The first synod of the Nippon Sei Ko Kai met in Osaka in February 1887. At this meeting, instigated by Bishop Edward Bickersteth and presided over by Bishop Williams, it was agreed to unite the various Anglican missionary efforts in Japan into one autonomous national church; the Nippon Sei Ko Kai. The 17 European and American participants at the first Synod were outnumbered by 14 other clergy and 50 Japanese lay delegates. Total Nippon Sei Ko Kai church membership in 1887 was estimated to be 1,300.
John Toshimichi Imai The Reverend John Toshimichi Imai (12 November 1863 – 3 September 1919, 今井 寿道) was the first Japanese-born ordained priest in the ''Nippon Sei Ko Kai'', the Anglican Church in Japan. A close associate of the Rev. Alexander Croft Shaw, ...
, ordained deacon in 1888 and raised to the priesthood by Bishop Bickersteth in 1889, was the first Japanese to become an ordained Anglican priest. In 1890,
J. G. Waller Rev. John Gage Waller (26 January 1863 – 22 March 1945) was a minister of the Anglican Church of Canada who was active in the central region of Japan, Chubu, in particular in Nagano Prefecture on behalf of the Anglican Church in Japan. Wa ...
, a Canadian Anglican priest, arrived in Japan with his wife Lydia. 1892, they moved to Nagano where he established churches in
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in 1898, which was nationally registered as an important tangible cultural property in 2006. Waller helped establish a tuberculosis sanatorium in
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funded by donations from Anglicans in Canada.


Continued growth and wartime challenges (1900–1945)

By 1906 the Nippon Sei Ko Kai was reported to have grown to 13,000 members, of whom 6,880 were communicants with a Japanese led ordained ministry of 42 priests and 22 deacons.
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, President of St. Paul's College and in 1913 appointed Bishop of Kyoto, was one of the foremost missionary leaders of the period who advocated that an independent, Japanese-led and self-supporting church was the only way in which Christianity could be carried to the wider population of Japan. Initiatives were put in place to help grow the financial self-sufficiency of church congregations and the first Japanese bishops,
John Yasutaro Naide John Yasutaro Naide (名出 保太郎) D.D. (December 22, 1866 – 1945) was an Anglican bishop of the Diocese of Osaka, in the Nippon Sei Ko Kai, the Province of the Anglican Communion in Japan. He was born in Wakayama Prefecture. Naide served ...
, Bishop of Osaka and
Joseph Sakunoshin Motoda Rt. Rev. Joseph Sakunoshin Motoda D.D. (22 February 1862 – 16 April 1928, 元田 作之進) was the first Japanese born Bishop of Tokyo in the Nippon Sei Ko Kai, the Anglican Church in Japan. Education and Church Ministry Joseph Sakunoshin Mo ...
, Bishop of Tokyo, were consecrated in 1923. During the 1930s, as overseas funding and the number of foreign Anglican missionaries in Japan declined, new challenges arose for Nippon Sei Ko Kai church leadership and laity from the increasing focus on Shinto as a state prescribed religion and the growing influence of militarism in domestic and foreign policy. Christianity was portrayed by many nationalist politicians at the time as incompatible with the loyalty of Japanese subjects. In response the Nippon Sei Ko Kai issued periodic statements in support of the Imperial Army. And the first half of the 20th century saw NSKK's overseas expansion. Taiwan Sheng Kung Hui was established, several Japanese-language churches, such as Dalian Sheng Kung Hui Church, were built in
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's Northern China Diocese in Manchuria, and the Anglican Church of Korea was absorbed by the NSKK. A more active period of government persecution began in 1937, particularly for Christian denominations such as the
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with its commitment to social reform, and for the NSKK with its historic links to the Church of England. Archbishop Lang's condemnation in October of Imperial Japanese Army actions in China, provoked hostile scrutiny of the NSKK and caused some in the church leadership to publicly disassociate themselves from links with the wider Anglican Communion. During World War II, the majority of Protestant churches in Japan were forcibly brought together by the Japanese wartime government to form the
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, or Kyodan. Reflecting the distinctive doctrinal character of the Anglican Communion, many individual Nippon Sei Ko Kai congregations refused to join. The cost of resistance to and non-cooperation with the government's religious policies was harassment by the military police and periods of imprisonment for church leaders such as Bishops
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, Hinsuke Yashiro and Todomu Sugai, as well as Primate
Paul Shinji Sasaki Paul Shinji Sasaki (パウロ 佐々木 鎮次)、(March 11, 1885 – December 21, 1946) was an Anglican bishop of the Diocese of Mid-Japan and later of Tokyo, in the Nippon Sei Ko Kai, the Province of the Anglican Communion in Japan. Early l ...
. St. Andrew's Tokyo, now the Cathedral church for the Diocese of Tokyo, was one such congregation that resisted government pressure, struggling to retain its land, church buildings and
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identity to the war's end in 1945. However, like many urban Nippon Sei Ko Kai churches, medical and educational facilities, St. Andrew's buildings were lost in the 1945 Allied incendiary bombing.


Post

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period (1945–)

The pressure of an extended war caused damage to both internal church unity and the physical infrastructure of the Nippon Sei Ko Kai; 71 out of a total of 246 churches had been destroyed, others were in bad repair due to neglect, requisition by the military or vandalism. Through individual and larger communal acts of reconciliation, and with the support of an Anglican Commission sent out by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Archbishop Fisher in 1946; the Nippon Sei Ko Kai was organizationally reordered in 1947, with a leadership consisting of Japanese bishops at the head of each diocese, renewing its life and mission for the Christian Gospel in Japan. Attending the 1948 Lambeth Conference, Presiding Bishop Yashiro took with him a finely embroidered silk cope and mitre, presented to Archbishop Fisher as a gesture of thanks from members of the Nippon Sei Ko Kai for the bonds of fellowship that continued to hold members of the Anglican Communion together, in the aftermath of wartime hostilities. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Geoffrey Fisher, wore the cope at the opening service of the Lambeth Conference that year and again in 1953 at the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. The Nippon Sei Ko Kai became a financially self-supporting Province of the Anglican Communion in 1972. Adopting a formal Statement of War Responsibility at the General Synod in 1996, and reflecting on the Japanese occupation of China and Korea prior to the Second World War, the NSKK has been active in multi-year projects promoting peace, reconciliation, and youth exchange programs between East Asian nations. Two decades after becoming the first woman deacon, Margaret Ryoko Shibukawa was ordained the first woman priest in the Nippon Sei Ko Kai in December 1998. The Nippon Sei Ko Kai celebrated the 150th anniversary of continuous Anglican Christian witness in Japan in 2009. The occasion was marked with a series of church and community events and visits by both the then
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, Rowan Williams and the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America at the time, Katharine Jefferts Schori. In 2013 the NSKK co-hosted with the Anglican Church of Korea, the 2nd Worldwide Anglican Peace Conference in Okinawa. The NSKK is a member of the
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Nathaniel Makoto Uematsu Nathaniel Makoto Uematsu (植松 誠 ナタナエル) is the current Anglican Bishop of the diocese of Hokkaidō, Japan and was the Primate of the Nippon Sei Ko Kai, the Province of the Anglican Communion in Japan, until November 2020. Uematsu b ...
, Bishop of Hokkaido was the primate of the Anglican Church in Japan from 23 May 2006 until November 2020.


Present

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, Bishop of Kyushu, was installed as the current Primate of Nippon Sei Ko Kai on 5 November 2020. Today the Nippon Sei Ko Kai continues its traditions of ministry and Christian witness in Japan through church congregational life, hospitals, schools, social advocacy, and support for non-profit organizations. The church, at both a national and local level, works to support disadvantaged, marginalized, or discriminated against communities in Japan, as well as communities in Tohoku impacted by the 2011 Great East Japan earthquake, tsunami and subsequent crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear generating plant. The NSKK also engages in field-based mission work overseas, such as in the Philippines. Eight of the NSKK's dioceses ordain women to the diaconate and priesthood. The NSKK has ordained women to the priesthood since 1998. Women have been ordained to the diaconate since 1978, and the first woman to be ordained a deacon and, later, as a priest was Margaret Shibukawa Ryoko. In 2021, the Diocese of Hokkaido elected Grace Trazu Sasamori as bishop, making her the first woman to be elected bishop in the church.


Dioceses and notable churches

There are currently eleven dioceses in the Nippon Sei Ko Kai and over three hundred church and chapel congregations spread across the country. Notable churches in each diocese from north to south include:


Hokkaido


Christ Church Cathedral
Sapporo


Tohoku

*Christ Church Cathedral,
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Kitakanto


St. Matthias' Cathedral
Maebashi


Tokyo

The Diocese of Tokyo was established in its modern form in May 1923. There are 33 churches and 9 chapels in the Diocese, many having been first established in the second half of the nineteenth century. * St. Andrew's Cathedral, Minato-ku, Tokyo * St. Alban's, Minato-ku, Tokyo, an English language based NSKK congregation located adjacent to St. Andrew's Cathedral.
St. Luke's Chapel
Chuo-ku, Tokyo located in the Old Building of
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. One of the very few NSKK church buildings in central Tokyo to have survived the Second World War


Yokohama

* St. Andrew's Cathedral, Yokohama * Christ Church, Yokohama landmark church located in
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overlooking the Port of Yokohama, hosting both English and Japanese language based congregations. * St. Andrew's Church,
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Chubu


St. Matthew's Cathedral
Nagoya *Nagano Holy Saviour's Church, Nagano, built by
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, nationally registered as an important tangible cultural property in 2006. *
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, whose origin is the Child care workers' school established by Margaret Young (1855 - 1940), a missionary from
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Kyoto

* St. Agnes' Cathedral, Kyoto


Osaka


Christ Church Cathedral
Kawaguchi, Osaka the cathedral seat of the
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Kobe


St. Michael's Cathedral
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Kyushu


St. Paul's Cathedral
Fukuoka


Okinawa


Cathedral of St. Paul and St. Peter
Mihara, Naha, Okinawa


Related facilities

Nippon Sei Ko Kai affiliated educational, medical and social welfare institutions in Japan number over two hundred. Comprehensive lists of affiliated institutions are available on the officia
NSKK website


Seminaries

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Central Theological College, Tokyo The Central Theological College (Japanese: 聖公会神学院 ''Seikōkai Shingakuin'') is the Anglican theological college of the Nippon Sei Ko Kai in Yōga, Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan. Founded in 1908 from the amalgamation of three older Japanes ...
Founded in 1908 from the amalgamation of three older Japanese Anglican seminaries. * Williams Theological Seminary, Kyoto


Religious orders

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Community of Nazareth The Community of Nazareth (CN) is an Anglican religious order for women founded in 1936. It was established in Tokyo by the English Community of the Epiphany. It is now under the jurisdiction of the Anglican Church in Japan, the Nippon Sei Ko Kai, ...
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Universities and colleges

* Rikkyo University, Tokyo (立教大学 Rikkyō Daigaku), also known as St. Paul's University *
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, Tokyo (立教女学院短期大学 Rikkyō Jogakuin Tanki Daigaku) *
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* Momoyama Gakuin University, Osaka (桃山学院大学 Momoyama Gakuin Daigaku), also known as Saint Andrew's University. * Heian Jogakuin University, Kyoto and Osaka, also known as St. Agnes University *
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, Osaka * Poole Gakuin Junior College, Osaka * Kobe International University, Kobe * Kobe Shoin Women's University, Kobe


Hospitals

*
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, Tokyo * St. Barnabas' Hospital, Osaka


Notable people


Early mission church (1859–1900)

* Channing Moore Williams (1829-1910), Episcopal Bishop of China and Japan, founder of Rikkyo University *
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(1829-1912), first missionary and ordained representative of the Anglican Communion in Japan * Alexander Croft Shaw (1846-1902), missionary, founder of St. Andrew's Church in Tokyo and Archdeacon of North Japan * Edward Bickersteth (1850-1897), First Bishop of South Tokyo * John Batchelor (1854-1944), missionary to the
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communities of Hokkaido *
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(1852-1936), Bishop of North Tokyo *
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(1842-1910), Second Bishop of South Tokyo *
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(1852-1911), missionary, academic and translator * Philip Fyson (1846-1928), Bishop of Hokkaido. Member of the Church Missionary Society *
John Toshimichi Imai The Reverend John Toshimichi Imai (12 November 1863 – 3 September 1919, 今井 寿道) was the first Japanese-born ordained priest in the ''Nippon Sei Ko Kai'', the Anglican Church in Japan. A close associate of the Rev. Alexander Croft Shaw, ...
(1863-1919), First Japanese born Anglican priest, ordained in 1889


Continued growth and wartime challenges (1900–1945)

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Paul Shinji Sasaki Paul Shinji Sasaki (パウロ 佐々木 鎮次)、(March 11, 1885 – December 21, 1946) was an Anglican bishop of the Diocese of Mid-Japan and later of Tokyo, in the Nippon Sei Ko Kai, the Province of the Anglican Communion in Japan. Early l ...
, (1885-1946) Bishop of Mid-Japan, later Bishop of Tokyo and Presiding Bishop of the Nippon Sei Ko Kai * Todomu Sugai, (1883-1947) Bishop of South Tokyo and Presiding Bishop January 1947 to August 1947 *
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, (1874-1956) Bishop of Kyoto, later Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church *
Joseph Sakunoshin Motoda Rt. Rev. Joseph Sakunoshin Motoda D.D. (22 February 1862 – 16 April 1928, 元田 作之進) was the first Japanese born Bishop of Tokyo in the Nippon Sei Ko Kai, the Anglican Church in Japan. Education and Church Ministry Joseph Sakunoshin Mo ...
, (1862-1928) Bishop of Tokyo *
John Yasutaro Naide John Yasutaro Naide (名出 保太郎) D.D. (December 22, 1866 – 1945) was an Anglican bishop of the Diocese of Osaka, in the Nippon Sei Ko Kai, the Province of the Anglican Communion in Japan. He was born in Wakayama Prefecture. Naide served ...
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Peter Yonetaro Matsui Rt. Revd. Peter Yonetaro Matsui (松井 米太郎) D.D. (died October 16, 1946) was an Anglican bishop of the Diocese of Tokyo, in the Nippon Sei Ko Kai, the Province of the Anglican Communion in Japan. Studied for two years at Wycliffe College, ...
, Bishop of Tokyo *
Rudolf Teusler Rudolf Bolling Teusler M.D. (1876 - 1934) was a medical physician and lay missionary to Japan who worked under the auspices of the Foreign and Domestic Missionary Society of the American Episcopal Church. Teusler is remembered in Japan as the fo ...
, (1876-1934) Medical lay missionary, founder of
St. Luke's International Hospital is a general and teaching hospital located in the Tsukiji district of Chūō, Tokyo, Japan. First opened in 1902, as a medical mission facility by the Episcopal Church (United States), Episcopal Church in the United States, the hospital is now on ...
, Tokyo *
Mary Cornwall Legh Mary Helena Cornwall Legh, (20 May 1857 – 18 December 1941) also known as ("Nellie" Cornwall Legh) was a British Anglican missionary, who late in life devoted herself to the welfare, education and medical care of leprosy patients in Kusatsu, Gu ...
, (1857-1941) Missionary to the leprosy communities of Kusatsu, Gunma. *
Samuel Heaslett Samuel Heaslett (1875–1947) was an Anglican bishop. He was born in Belfast in 1875 and educated at Durham University, where he obtained a First Class degree in theology. Ordained in 1900 he began his overseas mission career in the service of th ...
, (1875-1947) Fourth Bishop of South Tokyo * Walter Weston, (1860-1940) Missionary and Japan Alpine Mountaineer *
Sidney Catlin Partridge Sidney Catlin Partridge (September 1, 1857 – June 22, 1930) was the first Bishop of Kyoto (1900–1911) and the second Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of West Missouri (1911–1930). Early life and education Partridge was born in New York Ci ...
, First Bishop of Kyoto *
Hiromichi Kato Hiromichi (written: 煕通, 博通, 宏典, 弘道, 広道, 浩道, 寛道, 寛理 or 博達) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese wrestler *, Japanese scholar, philosopher, writer and poet *, Japan ...
, Bishop of Tohoku *
Norman S. Binsted Norman Spencer Binsted (October 2, 1890 – February 20, 1961) was a Canadian-American missionary bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America, serving first in the Nippon Sei Ko Kai and later in the Philippines. He graduated ...
, First Bishop of Tohoku elected 1928 * Arthur Lea, Bishop of Kyushu or South Japan *
Philip Kemball Fyson Philip Kemball Fyson (21 January 1846, Higham, Suffolk - 30 January 1928, Sutton Valence) was an Anglican bishop of the Diocese of Hokkaido, in the Nippon Sei Ko Kai, the province of the Anglican Communion in Japan. Philip Kemball Fyson was the ...
, Bishop of Hokkaido *
Charles S. Reifsnider Charles Shriver Reifsnider (November 27, 1875 – March 16, 1958) was the Anglican bishop of North Tokyo in the Nippon Sei Ko Kai from 1935 to 1940. During his mission years in Japan from 1904 to 1941 he also served as the President of Rik ...
, (1875-1958), Suffragan Bishop of North Kanto, President of Rikkyo University *
Kenneth Abbott Viall Kenneth Abbott Viall (December 19, 1893 – January 3, 1974) was born in Lynn, Massachusetts as the only son of Frederick Clarence Viall and Edith Laura (Robbins) Viall. He received his A.B. from Harvard College in 1915, and B.D. from the General ...
, Assistant Bishop of Tokyo * Michael Hinsuke Yashiro, Bishop of Kobe, elected Presiding Bishop in 1947 *
Paul Rusch Paul Frederick Rusch (1897 – 1979) was a lay missionary of the Anglican Church in Japan. Rusch is remembered in Japan for his role as an educator and for pioneering activities in development of American football, rural agriculture and post Secon ...
, (1897-1979) Lay missionary, educator, founder of Seisen Ryo (KEEP), Yamanashi Prefecture


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in English and Japanese
Anglicanism in Japan
historical resources from
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