Diocese of Oita
The Diocese of Oita is a suffragan Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Nagasaki in southern Japan.
Its cathedral episcopal see is the Cathedral of St. Francis Xavier, in the city of Ōita.
Diocese of Funai
The first Catholic jurisdiction of Otai's territory was established on 19 February 1588, during Portuguese colonial prominence and missionary efforts in the Far East, as the Diocese of Funai , on territory split off from the colonial Roman [Catholic Diocese of Macau|Diocese of Macau].It was suppressed around 1660, having had the following incumbents :
- Sebastião de Morais de Funchal, Jesuits
- Pedro Martins, S.J.
- Luis Cerqueira, S.J., succeeding as former Coadjutor Bishop of Funai 府内 & Titular Bishop of Tiberias
- Diogo Correia Valente, S.J., also Apostolic Administrator of mother diocese Macau 澳門
- Apostolic Administrator Francesco Antonio Frascella, Conventual Franciscans, Titular Archbishop of Myra
History
- Established on March 27, 1927 as Mission [sui iuris|Mission sui iuris] of Miyazaki, on territory split off from the Diocese of Fukuoka
- January 28, 1935: Promoted as Apostolic Prefecture of Miyazaki
- December 22, 1961: Promoted and renamed after its see as '''Diocese of Oita'''
Ordinaries
;Ecclesiastical Superior of Miyazaki;Apostolic Prefects of Miyazaki
- Fr. Vincenzo Cimatti, S.D.B.
- Apostolic Administrator Francis Xavier Ichitaro Ideguchi while Apostolic Prefect of Kagoshima 鹿児島
- Apostolic Administrator Dominic Senyemon Fukahori, while Bishop of Fukuoka 福岡 , emeritate as Titular Bishop of Crepedula
- Peter Saburo Hirata, Sulpicians †, later Bishop of Fukuoka 福岡
- Peter Takaaki Hirayama
- Dominic Ryoji Miyahara, later Bishop of Fukuoka 福岡
- Paul Sueo Hamaguchi
- Sulpizio Shinzo Moriyama