Diocese of Fukuoka 福岡, Japan 🇯🇵

Continent: South and East Asia

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Diocese Diocese

Name: Fukuoka 福岡 / Fukuokaën(sis) (Latin)

Ecclesiastical Province: Nagasaki 長崎

Neighbouring Dioceses: Nagasaki 長崎 (↙), Busan 부산 (↖), Hiroshima 広島 (↗), Oita 大分 (→), Kagoshima 鹿児島 (↓)

Depends on: Dicastery for Evangelisation

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Celebrations

Cathedral Dedication Anniversary: April 13

Liturgical Calendar (National) 📅

History

1927.07.16: Established as Diocese of Fukuoka 福岡 / Fukuokaën(sis) (Latin) (from Diocese of Nagasaki 長崎 and became suffragan of Tokyo 東京)
1959.05.04: Became suffragan of Nagasaki 長崎

Present Prelates

Bishop (2020.04.14 – ...):

Bishop Josep María Abella Batlle (ホセ・マリア・アベイヤ), C.M.F. (76)

Ordinaries

Bishops of Fukuoka 福岡 (Roman Rite)

Bishop Josep María Abella Batlle (ホセ・マリア・アベイヤ), C.M.F. (76)
(2020.04.14 – ...)

Bishop of Fukuoka 福岡 (Japan)

キリストの愛に駆り立てられて

Born:	1949.11.03 (Lleida, Spain)
Ordained Priest:	1975.07.12
Consecrated Bishop:	2018.07.16

Superior General of Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (Claretians) (2003.09.01 – 2015.09.05)

Vice-President of Union of Superiors General (U.S.G.) (2009 – ?)

Titular Bishop of Malamocco (2018.06.02 – 2020.04.14)

Auxiliary Bishop of Osaka 大阪 (Japan) (2018.06.02 – 2020.04.14)

Bishop of Fukuoka 福岡 (Japan) (2020.04.14 – ...)

Fr. Peter Hironobu Sugihara (ペトロ杉原寛信)
(Apostolic Administrator 2019.04.27 – 2020.04.14)

Bishop Dominic Ryōji Miyahara (ドミニコ宮原良治) (70)
(2008.03.19 – 2019.04.27)

Bishop emeritus of Fukuoka 福岡 (Japan)

Adveniat regnum tuum

Born:	1955.05.22 (Gotō, 長崎県, Japan)
Ordained Priest:	1982.03.19
Consecrated Bishop:	2000.10.01

Priest of Nagasaki 長崎 (Japan) (1982.03.19 – 2000.05.10)

Bishop of Oita 大分 (Japan) (2000.05.10 – 2008.03.19)

Bishop of Fukuoka 福岡 (Japan) (2008.03.19 – 2019.04.27)

Bishop Joseph Hisajiro Matsunaga (ヨゼフ松永久次郎)
(1990.10.06 – 2006.06.02)

Born:	1930.03.07 (Hirado, 長崎県, Japan)
Ordained Priest:	1956.12.22
Consecrated Bishop:	1978.02.05
Died:	2006.06.02 († 76)

Titular Bishop of Umbriatico (1977.11.10 – 1990.10.06)

Auxiliary Bishop of Nagasaki 長崎 (Japan) (1977.11.10 – 1990.10.06)

Bishop of Fukuoka 福岡 (Japan) (1990.10.06 – 2006.06.02)

Bishop Peter Saburo Hirata (ペトロ平田三郎), P.S.S.
(1969.11.15 – 1990.10.06)

Born:	1913.08.18 (Kitano, 福岡県, Japan)
Ordained Priest:	1939.06.29
Consecrated Bishop:	1962.03.26
Died:	2007.08.05 († 93)

Bishop of Oita 大分 (Japan) (1961.12.22 – 1969.11.15)

Bishop of Fukuoka 福岡 (Japan) (1969.11.15 – 1990.10.06)

Bishop Dominic Senyemon Fukahori (ドミニコ深堀仙右衛門)
(1944.03.09 – 1969.11.15)

Born:	1894.06.13 (Nagasaki, 長崎県, Japan)
Ordained Priest:	1936.07.01
Consecrated Bishop:	1944.05.28
Died:	1985.06.21 († 91)

Apostolic Administrator of Fukuoka 福岡 (Japan) (1941 – 1944.03.09)

Bishop of Fukuoka 福岡 (Japan) (1944.03.09 – 1969.11.15)

Apostolic Administrator of Miyazaki 宮崎 (Japan) (1945.11.18 – 1961.12.22)

Titular Bishop of Crepedula (1969.11.15 – 1976.08.09)

Fr. Dominic Senyemon Fukahori (ドミニコ深堀仙右衛門) (later Bishop)
(Apostolic Administrator 1941 – 1944.03.09)

Bishop Albert Henri Charles Breton (アルベルト・ブルトン), M.E.P.
(1931.06.09 – 1941.01.16)

Born:	1882.07.16 (Saint-Inglevert, France)
Ordained Priest:	1905.06.29
Consecrated Bishop:	1931.09.29
Died:	1954.08.12 († 72)

Bishop of Fukuoka 福岡 (Japan) (1931.06.09 – 1941.01.16)

Titular Bishop of Arabissus (1941.05.12 – 1954.08.12)

Bishop Fernand-Jean-Joseph Thiry (フェルナン・チリー), M.E.P.
(1927.07.14 – 1930.05.10)

Born:	1884.09.28 (Anor, France)
Ordained Priest:	1907.06.29
Consecrated Bishop:	1927.12.11
Died:	1930.05.10 († 45)

Bishop of Fukuoka 福岡 (Japan) (1927.07.14 – 1930.05.10)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Cathedral of Our Lady of Victory (Daimyomachi Church), 福岡 (Fukuoka), 福岡県, 九州
World Heritage Site: 崎津教会（イエスのみ心）, 天草 (Amakusa), 熊本県, 九州
Jubilee Churches in the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy (2016)
Jubilee Churches in the Holy Year 2025

Churches by City (68)

Nagasaki 長崎 (↙), Busan 부산 (↖), Hiroshima 広島 (↗), Oita 大分 (→), Kagoshima 鹿児島 (↓)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 14,864 km²

Population: 29,018 Catholics (0.4% of 7,627,944 total)

Pastoral Centres: 55 parishes, 10 missions

Personnel: 80 priests (45 diocesan, 35 religious), 2 deacons, 279 religious (40 brothers, 239 sisters), 1 seminarian