Diocese of Kyoto (Catholic)

Diocese of Kyoto

*Dioecesis Kyotensis*

カトリック京都教区
Diocese of Kyoto; Dioecesis Kyotensis; カトリック京都教区
	St. Francis Xavier Cathedral, Kyoto
Location
Country	Japan
Territory	Kyoto, Shiga, Nara, and Mie
Ecclesiastical province	Osaka 大阪
Metropolitan	Osaka 大阪
Statistics
Area	18,095 km2 (6,987 sq mi)
Population Total; Catholics;	(as of 2004); 7,314,195; 19,198 (0.3%);
Information
Rite	Latin Rite
Cathedral	St. Francis Xavier Cathedral, Kyoto
Current leadership
Pope	Leo XIV
Bishop	Paul Yoshinao Otsuka
Metropolitan Archbishop	Thomas Aquino Manyo Maeda
Map
Website
	Website of the Diocese

The Diocese of Kyoto (Latin: Dioecesis Kyotensis, Japanese: カトリック京都教区) is a diocese of the Latin Church of the Catholic Church located in the city of Kyoto in the ecclesiastical province of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Osaka in Japan.

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On June 17, 1937, Apostolic Prefecture of Kyoto was established from the territory of the Diocese of Osaka.

On July 12, 1951, the apostolic prefecture was raised to a diocese by Pope Pius XII through the papal bull "Inter supremi".

The diocese's cathedral is the St. Francis Xavier Cathedral, Kyoto dedicated in November 1972.

Leadership