Nippon Sei Ko Kai

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The Nippon Sei Ko Kai ( Japanese 日本 聖公会 Nippon Seikōkai , literally: "Holy, public assembly of Japan") is a member church of the Anglican Community and is limited to the territory of Japan .

Its beginnings lie in the missions of the 19th century and originated in the USA . It was officially founded in 1887 and had its first resident as a bishop in 1923 . It has been an independent Anglican ecclesiastical province since 1930 .

Today the ecclesiastical province of Japan ( 日本 管 区 , Nippon Kanku ) has 11 dioceses ( Chūbu , Hokkaidō , North Kantō (Kitakantō), Kobe , Kyōto , Kyūshū , Okinawa , Osaka , Tōhoku , Tokyo , Yokohama ) and its own primate , which is currently Nathaniel Makoto Uematsu is. It currently has around 57,000 members (as of 2006).

diocese Seat bishop
Chubu Shōwa-ku , Nagoya Peter Ichirō Shibusawa
Hokkaido Kita-ku , Sapporo Nathaniel Makoto Uematsu
North Kanto Ōmiya-ku , Saitama Zerubbabel Katsuichi Hirota
Kobe Chūō-ku , Kobe Andrew Yutaka Nakamura
Kyoto Kamigyō-ku , Kyōto Stephen Takashi Kochi
Kyushu Chūō-ku , Fukuoka Luke Ken'ichi Muto
Okinawa Urasoe David Shōji Tani
Osaka Abeno-ku , Osaka Samuel Osamu Ōnishi
Tohoku Aoba-ku , Sendai John Hiromichi Kato
Tokyo Minato , Tokyo Andrew Yoshimichi Ōhata
Yokohama Kanagawa-ku , Yokohama Lawrence Yu Minabe

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.oikoumene.org/en/member-churches/anglican-church-in-japan (English)