The episcopate of the Catholic Church in Japan consists solely of a Latin hierarchy, joined in the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Japan.
It comprises fifteen ecclesiastical territories, called (arch)dioceses, led by residential prelate bishops: <br>three archdioceses, led by Metropolitan Archbishops, whose ecclesiastical provinces of the Roman Catholic Church include a total of twelve suffragan sees.
There are no Eastern Catholic, pre-diocesan or other exempt jurisdictions.
There are no titular sees. All defunct jurisdictions have current successor sees.
There is an Apostolic Nunciature to Japan as papal diplomatic representation at embassy-level in national capital Tokyo.
thumb|The gravestone (second from the left), in [[Melaka's St Paul's Church, of someone identified as Peter (?), the "second bishop of Japan", who died in February 1598]]
Current Latin dioceses
Ecclesiastical Province of Nagasaki
- Metropolitan Archdiocese of Nagasaki
- Diocese of Fukuoka
- Diocese of Kagoshima
- Diocese of Naha
- Diocese of Oita
Ecclesiastical Province of Osaka
- Metropolitan Archdiocese of Osaka-Takamatsu
- Diocese of Hiroshima
- Diocese of Kyoto
- Diocese of Nagoya
Ecclesiastical Province of Tokyo
- Metropolitan Archdiocese of Tokyo
- Diocese of Niigata
- Diocese of Saitama
- Diocese of Sapporo
- Diocese of Sendai
- Diocese of Yokohama
See also
- List of Catholic dioceses (structured view)
- Catholicism in Japan
Sources and external links
- GCatholic - data for all sections
- Catholic Hierarchy Profile of the Catholic Church in Japan
- Map of Japan by Diocese