Diocese of Naha
The Diocese of Naha is a Latin Catholic diocese of the Catholic Church in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Nagasaki, in southern Japan.
Its cathedral episcopal see is the Cathedral of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, located in the city of Naha.
History
- Established in 1947 as Apostolic Administration of Okinawa and the Southern Islands alias of Ryukyus, an exempt missionary pre-diocesan jurisdiction, on territory split off from the then Apostolic Prefecture of Kagoshima.
- Promoted on December 18, 1972 as Diocese of Naha, after its see.
Ordinaries
All Roman Rite, members of a Latin congregation;Apostolic Administrators of Okinawa and the Southern Islands
- Apollinaris William Baumgartner, OFMCap, titular bishop of Jaffa#Latin [titular see|Joppe (Jaffa)] and apostolic vicar of Guam, later Bishop of Agaña
- Felix Ley, OFMCap, titular bishop of Caput Cilla
- Peter Baptist Tadamaro Ishigami,, OFMCap
- Berard Toshio Oshikawa,, OFMConv
- Wayne Francis Berndt, OFMCap