Roman Catholic Diocese of Sendai

Diocese of Sendai Dioecesis Sendaiensis カトリック仙台教区
Location
Country	Japan
Ecclesiastical province	Tokyo
Metropolitan	Tokyo
Statistics
Area	45,951 km2 (17,742 sq mi)
Population - Total - Catholics	(as of 2010) 7,167,150 10,949 (0.2%)
Information
Rite	Latin Rite
Cathedral	Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul, Sendai
Current leadership
Pope	Francis
Bishop	Martin Tetsuo Hiraga
Metropolitan Archbishop	Peter Takeo Okada
Map
Website
http://www.sendai.catholic.jp/

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Sendai (Latin: Sendaiensis, Japanese: カトリック仙台教区) is a diocese of the Western Latin Church of the Catholic Church centered in the city of Sendai. It is within the ecclesiastical province of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tokyo in Japan. Its current bishop is Bishop Martin Tetsuo Hiraga.

History

On April 17, 1891, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Hakodate was carved out of the Apostolic Vicariate of Northern Japan. On March 9, 1936 the diocese was renamed the Diocese of Sendai.

Leadership

• As "Bishops of Sendai":
  • Bishop Martin Tetsuo Hiraga (マルチノ平賀徹夫) (since 2005.12.10)
  • Bishop Francis Xavier Osamu Mizobe (フランシスコ・ザビエル溝部脩), S.D.B. (2000.05.10 – 2004.05.14)
  • Bishop Raymond Augustin Chihiro Sato (ライムンド佐藤千敬), O.P. (1976.01.24 – 1998.06.19)
  • Bishop Petro Arikata Kobayashi (ペトロ小林有方) (1954.02.21 – 1976.01.24)
  • Bishop Michael Wasaburo Urakawa (ミカエル浦川和三郎) (1941.11.20 – 1954)
  • Archbishop Marie-Joseph Lemieux (マリー・ジョゼフ・ルミュー) (1935.12.03 – 1941.01.16)

• As "Bishops of Hakodate":
  • Fr. Andre Dumas, O.P. (Apostolic Administrator 1931 – 1936)
  • Bishop Alexandre Berlioz (アレキサンドル・ベルリオーズ), M.E.P. (1891.04.24 – 1927.07.25)

See also

• Roman Catholicism in Japan

Sources

• GCatholic.org
• Catholic Hierarchy
• Diocese website

External links

• http://www.cbcj.catholic.jp/jpn/diocese/sendai.htm