Diocese of Oita

Dioecesis Oitaensis

カトリック大分教区
Location
CountryJapan
Ecclesiastical provinceNagasaki 長崎
MetropolitanNagasaki 長崎
Statistics
Area14,072 km2 (5,433 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics
(as of 2004)
2,368,659
5,764 (0.2%)
Information
RiteLatin Rite
CathedralSt Francis Xavier Cathedral in Ōita
Current leadership
PopeFrancis
BishopSulpizio Shinzo Moriyama
Metropolitan ArchbishopPeter Michiaki Nakamura
Map
Website
Website of the Diocese

The Diocese of Oita (Latin: Dioecesis Oitaensis, Japanese: カトリック大分教区) is a suffragan Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in the Ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Nagasaki in southern Japan.

Its cathedral episcopal see is the Cathedral of St. Francis Xavier (Oita Church), in the city of Ōita.

Diocese of Funai

The first Catholic jurisdiction of Otai's territory was established on 19 February 1588, during Portuguese colonial prominence and missionary efforts in the Far East, as the Diocese of Funai (or Funay), on territory split off from the colonial Roman Catholic Diocese of Macau.

It was suppressed around 1660, having had the following incumbents (all Portuguese missionary members of Latin Congregations):

History

  • Established (restoring its above predecessor at a much lower level) on March 27, 1927 as Mission sui iuris of Miyazaki, on territory split off from the Diocese of Fukuoka
  • January 28, 1935: Promoted as Apostolic Prefecture of Miyazaki
  • December 22, 1961: Promoted and renamed after its see as Diocese of Oita

Ordinaries

Ecclesiastical Superior of Miyazaki
Apostolic Prefects of Miyazaki
Suffragan Bishops of Oita
  • Peter Saburo Hirata, Sulpicians (P.S.S.) † (22 December 1961 - 15 November 1969 ), later Bishop of Fukuoka 福岡 (Japan) (1969.11.15 – 1990.10.06)
  • Peter Takaaki Hirayama (15 November 1969 - 10 May 2000)
  • Dominic Ryoji Miyahara (10 May 2000 - 19 March 2008), later Bishop of Fukuoka 福岡 (Japan) (2008.03.19 – 2019.04.27)
  • Paul Sueo Hamaguchi (26 June 2011 - 28 December 2020)
  • Sulpizio Shinzo Moriyama (5 April 2022 – present)

See also

Sources

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