Diocese of Yokohama 横浜, Japan

Continent: South and East Asia

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Yokohama 横浜 / Yokohamaën(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Tokyo 東京

Depends on: Dicastery for Evangelisation

Notes: Seat at Nagasaki 長崎 1866–1876

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Celebrations

Cathedral Dedication Anniversary: November 23

Liturgical Calendar (National) 📅

History

1846.05.01: Established as Apostolic Vicariate of Japan 日本 / Iaponen(sis) (Latin) (from Apostolic Vicariate of Korea 조선)
1876.05.22: Suppressed (to establish Apostolic Vicariate of Northern Japan 日本北緯 and Apostolic Vicariate of Southern Japan 日本南緯)
1937.11.09: Restored as Diocese of Yokohama 横浜 / Yokohamaën(sis) (Latin) (from Metropolitan Archdiocese of Tokyo 東京 and became suffragan of Tokyo 東京)
1939.01.04: Lost territory to establish Apostolic Prefecture of Urawa 浦和

Present Prelates

Bishop (1999.03.16 – ...):

Bishop Rafael Masahiro Umemura (ラファエル梅村昌弘) (71)

Vice-President of Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Japan

Ordinaries

Bishops of Yokohama 横浜 (Roman Rite)

Bishop Rafael Masahiro Umemura (ラファエル梅村昌弘) (71)
(1999.03.16 – ...)

Bishop of Yokohama 横浜 (Japan)
Vice-President of Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Japan

Communio Communionum

Born:	1952.06.14 (Yokohama, 神奈川県, 関東地方, Japan)
Ordained Priest:	1985.03.25
Consecrated Bishop:	1999.05.15

Priest of Yokohama 横浜 (Japan) (1985.03.25 – 1999.03.16)

Bishop of Yokohama 横浜 (Japan) (1999.03.16 – ...)

Vice-President of Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Japan (2022.02.14 – ...)

Bishop Stephen Fumio Hamao (ステファノ濱尾文郎) (later Cardinal)
(1979.10.30 – 1998.06.15)

Adveniat regnum tuum

Born:	1930.03.09 (Tōkyō, 東京都, 関東地方, Japan)
Ordained Priest:	1957.12.21
Consecrated Bishop:	1970.04.29
Created Cardinal:	2003.10.21
Died:	2007.11.08 (Tōkyō, 東京都, 関東地方, Japan † 77)

Priest of Tokyo 東京 (Japan) (1957.12.21 – 1970.02.05)

Titular Bishop of Oreto (1970.02.05 – 1979.10.30)

Auxiliary Bishop of Tokyo 東京 (Japan) (1970.02.05 – 1979.10.30)

Bishop of Yokohama 横浜 (Japan) (1979.10.30 – 1998.06.15)

President of Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Japan (1995 – 1998)

Archbishop ad personam (1998.06.15 – 2003.10.21)

President of Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People (1998.06.15 – 2006.03.11)

Cardinal-Deacon of S. Giovanni Bosco in Via Tuscolana (2003.10.21 [2003.12.14] – 2007.11.08)

Bishop Luke Katsusaburo Arai (ルカ荒井勝三郎)
(1951.12.13 – 1979.10.30)

Born:	1904.10.17 (Utsunomiya, 栃木県, 関東地方, Japan)
Ordained Priest:	1930.06.28
Consecrated Bishop:	1952.02.24
Died:	1990.07.25 (Kamakura, 神奈川県, 関東地方, Japan † 85)

Bishop of Yokohama 横浜 (Japan) (1951.12.13 – 1979.10.30)

Bishop Thomas Asagoro Wakida (トマ脇田浅五郎)
(1947.03.25 – 1951.07.05)

Born:	1881.10.26 (Hisaka, 長崎県, 九州, Japan)
Ordained Priest:	1909.07.04
Consecrated Bishop:	1947.05.27
Died:	1965.03.16 († 83)

Apostolic Administrator of Kwoszu (South Korea) (1943.02.07 – 1945.09.16)

Bishop of Yokohama 横浜 (Japan) (1947.03.25 – 1951.07.05)

Titular Bishop of Iamnia (1951.07.05 – 1965.03.16)

Archbishop Peter Tatsuo Doi (ペトロ土井辰雄) (later Cardinal)
(Apostolic Administrator 1945 – 1947)

Msgr. Lawrence Tatewaki Toda (ラウレンチオ戸田帯刀)
(Apostolic Administrator 1944 – 1945)

Msgr. Joachim Miyoichi Ideguchi (ヨアキム井手口三代市)
(Apostolic Administrator 1941 – 1943)

Archbishop Jean-Baptiste-Alexis Chambon (ジャン・アレキシス・ジャンボン), M.E.P.
(1937.11.09 – 1940.09.18)

Born:	1875.03.17 (France)
Ordained Priest:	1899.09.23
Consecrated Bishop:	1927.05.04
Died:	1948.09.08 († 73)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Tokyo 東京 (Japan) (1927.03.16 – 1937.11.09)

Archbishop-Bishop of Yokohama 横浜 (Japan) (1937.11.09 – 1940.09.18)

Titular Archbishop of Amorium (1940.11.12 – 1948.09.08)

Vicars Apostolic of Japan 日本 (Roman Rite)

Bishop Bernard-Thadée Petitjean (ベルナール・プチジャン), M.E.P.
(1866.05.11 – 1876.05.22)

Born:	1829.06.14 (France)
Ordained Priest:	1853.05.21
Consecrated Bishop:	1866.10.21
Died:	1884.10.07 († 55)

Vicar Apostolic of Japan 日本 (Japan) (1866.05.11 – 1876.05.22)

Titular Bishop of Myriophytos (1866.05.11 – 1884.10.07)

Vicar Apostolic of Southern Japan 日本南緯 (Japan) (1876.05.22 – 1884.10.07)

Fr. C. Colin, M.E.P.
(1852 – 1854.05.23 not possessed)

Born:	(France)
Died:	1854.05.23

Vicar Apostolic of Japan 日本 (Japan) (1852 – 1854.05.23 not possessed)

Bishop Théodore-Augustin Forcade (テオドール＝オギュスタン・フォルカード / 科), M.E.P. (later Archbishop)
(1846.03.27 – 1852.01)

Fortitudo mea Dominus

Born:	1816.03.02 (Versailles, France)
Ordained Priest:	1839.03.16
Consecrated Bishop:	1847.02.21
Died:	1885.09.12 (Aix-en-Provence, France † 69)

Vicar Apostolic of Japan 日本 (Japan) (1846.03.27 – 1852.01)

Titular Bishop of Samos (1846.03.27 – 1853.04.06)

Pro-Prefect Apostolic of Hong Kong 香港 (Hong Kong) (1847.10.05 – 1850.08.24)

Bishop of Guadeloupe et Basse-Terre (Guadeloupe) ([1853.04.06] 1853.09.12 – 1860.12.11)

Bishop of Nevers (France) ([1860.12.11] 1861.03.18 – 1873.03.21)

Metropolitan Archbishop of Aix (France) ([1873.03.21] 1873.07.25 – 1885.09.12)

Former Prelates

Auxiliary Bishop: Bishop Joseph-Marie Laucaigne, M.E.P. (1873.10.03 – 1885.01.18)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Cathedral of the Sacred Heart (Yamate Church), 横浜 (Yokohama), 神奈川県, 関東地方
Shrines in the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy

Churches by City (97)

Nagoya 名古屋 (←), Niigata 新潟 (↖), Saitama さいたま (↑), Tokyo 東京 (↗)

Statistics (2021.12.31)

Area: 28,220 km²

Population: 54,317 Catholics (0.3% of 15,728,524 total)

Pastoral Centres: 87 parishes, 1 mission

Personnel: 94 priests (50 diocesan, 44 religious), 504 religious (50 brothers, 454 sisters), 6 seminarians