Diocese of Sendai

	Diocese of Sendai
Basic data
Country	Japan
Ecclesiastical province	Tokyo
Metropolitan bishopric	Archdiocese of Tokyo
Diocesan bishop	Sedis vacancy
Emeritus diocesan bishop	Martin Tetsuo Hiraga
founding	1891
surface	45,568 km²
Parishes	53 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Residents	6,791,448 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Catholics	10,009 (2017 / AP 2018 )
proportion of	0.1%
Diocesan priest	16 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Religious priest	12 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Catholics per priest	357
Friars	13 (2017 / AP 2018 )
Religious sisters	196 (2017 / AP 2018 )
rite	Roman rite
Liturgical language	Japanese
cathedral	Motoderakoji Kyōkai
Website	www.sendai.catholic.jp

The diocese of Sendai ( lat. : Dioecesis Sendaiensis , Jap. カトリック仙台教区 , katorikku Sendai Kyoku ) is in Japan situated Roman Catholic diocese based in Sendai .

history

Pope Leo XIII. founded the Apostolic Vicariate Hakodate on April 4, 1891, from territory ceded by the Apostolic Vicariate Northern Japan . With the Breve Non maius Nobis it was raised on June 15 of the same year to the diocese, which was subordinated to the Archdiocese of Tokyo as a suffragan diocese.

According to the decree Cum dioecesis of the Congregatio de Propaganda Fide , it moved the episcopal see from Hakodate to Sendai on March 9, 1936 and took on the current name.

It later lost parts of its territory in favor of the establishment of new dioceses:

August 13, 1912 to the Apostolic Prefecture of Niigata ;
February 12, 1915 to the Apostolic Prefecture of Sapporo .

territory

The diocese of Sendai includes the prefectures of Aomori , Fukushima , Iwate and Miyagi in the north of the island of Honshu .

Ordinaries

Vicar Apostolic of Hakodate

Alexandre Berlioz MEP (April 24, 1891 - June 15, 1891)

Bishops of Hakodate

Alexandre Berlioz MEP (June 15, 1891 - July 25, 1927)
Marie-Joseph Lemieux OP (December 3, 1935 - March 9, 1936)

Bishops of Sendai

Marie-Joseph Lemieux OP (March 9, 1936 - January 16, 1941)
Michael Wasaburo Urakawa (November 20, 1941 - November 26, 1953)
Petro Arikata Kobayashi (February 21, 1954 - January 24, 1976)
Raymond Augustin Chihiro Satō OP (January 24, 1976 - June 19, 1998)
Francis Xavier Osamu Mizobe SDS (May 10, 2000 - May 14, 2004, then Bishop of Takamatsu )
Martin Tetsuo Hiraga (December 10, 2005 - March 18, 2020)
Sedis vacancy (since March 18, 2020)

statistics

year	population			priest				Permanent deacons	Religious		Parishes
year	Catholics	Residents	%	Total number	Diocesan priest	Religious priest	Catholics per priest	Permanent deacons	Friars	Religious sisters	Parishes
1950	5,677	6,635,317	0.1	52	21st	31	109		36	299	22nd
1969	12,541	6,557,000	0.2	40	27	13	313		18th	337	52
1980	12,336	7,013,198	0.2	82	29	53	150		60	334	57
1990	11,816	7.255.210	0.2	74	27	47	159		52	319	57
1999	11,172	7,396,081	0.2	62	29	33	180		37	311	67
2000	10,872	7,393,347	0.1	65	28	37	167		41	300	67
2001	10,869	7,386,346	0.1	59	26th	33	184		37	307	67
2002	10,887	7,380,697	0.1	54	24	30th	201		33	303	56
2003	10,936	7,364,591	0.1	51	23	28	214		31	288	56
2004	10,947	7,332,874	0.1	50	27	23	218		29	289	56
2010	10,949	7.167.150	0.2	39	22nd	17th	280		24	258	53

Web links

Entry on the website of the Bishops' Conference of Japan in Japanese and English
Entry for the Diocese of Sendai on catholic-hierarchy.org
Entry about the Diocese of Sendai on Giga-Catholic (English)