Statistics of the Catholic Church in Japan 2000 (htm)
(January 2000 -- December 2000)

Social Communications Department of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Japan [top page]

  1. Japanese Catholic Population
  2. Foreign-born Catholics in Japan
  3. Bishops, Priests
  4. Sisters, Brothers and members of Secular Institutes

1) Japanese Catholic Population

Dioceses Prefectures General
Population		 Catholic
Population		 Lay
Catholics		 Clerics,
Religious
Seminarians
Sapporo Hokkaido 5,682,827 17,984 17,510 474
Sendai Miyagi, Aomori, Fukushima, Iwate 7,405,056 11,257 10,869 388
Niigata Niigata, Yamagata, Akita 4,930,812 7,566 7,414 152
Urawa Saitama, Tochigi, Gunma, Ibaraki 13,882,140 19,656 19,387 269
*Tokyo Tokyo, Chiba 17,636,355 87,069 84,733 2,336
Yokohama Kanagawa, Shizuoka, Nagano, Yamanashi 15,217,521 51,998 51,190 808
Nagoya Aichi, Gifu, Ishikawa, Fukui, Toyama 12,145,995 24,846 24,406 440
Kyoto Kyoto, Shiga, Nara, Mie 7,19,495 19,493 19,126 367
*Osaka Osaka, Hyogo, Wakayama 15,239,452 56,103 55,146 957
Hiroshima Hiroshima, Yamaguchi, Shimane, Okayama, Tottori 7,747,938 21,598 21,204 394
Takamatsu Kagawa, Ehime, Tokushima, Kochi 4,199,069 5,500 5,328 172
Fukuoka Fukuoka, Saga, Kumamoto 7,721,016 31,800 31,241 559
*Nagasakii Nagasaki 1,532,235 68,801 67,552 1,249
Oita Oita, Miyazaki 2,423,439 5,960 5,591 369
Kagoshima Kagoshima 1,787,121 9,396 9,126 270
Naha Okinawa 1,324,834 6,213 6,121 92
Total Total 126,071,305 445,240 435,944 9,296
*Archdioceses / Tokyo Province, Osaka Province, Nagasaki Province

2) Foreign-born Catholics in Japan (estimated) [page top]

Diocese Prefectures Koreans Filipinos Brazilians Peruvians Others Total
Sapporo Hokkaido 321 830 254 25 832 2,262
Sendai Miyagi, Aomori, Fukushima, Iwate 485 3,081 1,874 246 969 6,655
Niigata Niigata, Yamagata, Akita 274 2,370 1,654 187 559 5,046
Urawa Saitama, Tochigi, Gunma, Ibaraki 1,556 15,061 35,742 10,685 4,777 67,821
*Tokyo Tokyo, Chiba 6,054 25,434 9,604 4,460 16,261 61,813
Yokohama Kanagawa, Shizuoka, Nagano, Yamanashi 2,514 16,289 55,215 11,062 7,534 92,614
Nagoya Aichi, Gifu, Ishikawa, Fukui, Toyama 3,517 10,654 52,594 5,011 3,367 75,143
Kyoto Kyoto, Shiga, Nara, Mie 3,387 3,087 20,642 3,386 2,609 33,111
*Osaka Osaka, Hyogo, Wakayama 12,436 4,842 7,724 1,797 4,418 31,217
Hiroshima Hiroshima, Yamaguchi, Shimane, Okayama, Tottori 1,926 4,500 6,225 650 1,219 14,520
Takamatsu Kagawa, Ehime, Tokushima, Kochi 226 2,069 740 376 582 3,993
Fukuoka Fukuoka, Saga, Kumamoto 1,339 3,494 313 282 1,202 6,630
*Nagasakii Nagasaki 79 410 52 15 261 817
Oita Oita, Miyazaki 175 981 115 77 343 1,691
Kagoshima Kagoshima 27 846 115 9 182 1,179
Naha Okinawa 24 1,207 136 418 675 2,460
Total Total 34,345 95,156 192,999 38,687 45,787 406,974
*Archdioceses / Tokyo Province, Osaka Province, Nagasaki Province
Bishops are included in the total for priests

3) Bishops, Priests [page top]

Diocese Bishops Diocesan Priests Religious Priests
Missionary Priests		 All Priests
Japanese Foreign Total Japanese Foreign Total Japanese Foreign Total
Sapporo 1 31 0 31 25 26 51 57 26 83
Sendai 2 29 0 29 0 33 33 31 33 64
Niigata 1 15 1 16 8 10 18 24 11 35
Urawa 1 15 0 15 19 29 48 35 29 64
*Tokyo 3 78 5 83 149 179 328 230 184 414
Yokohama 1 43 2 45 34 68 102 78 70 148
Nagoya 1 18 1 19 48 70 118 67 71 138
Kyoto 2 16 0 16 12 40 52 30 40 70
*Osaka 3 55 1 56 40 90 130 98 91 189
Hiroshima 1 23 0 23 22 51 73 46 51 97
Takamatsu 1 7 5 12 4 30 34 12 35 47
Fukuoka 2 36 0 36 20 39 59 58 39 97
*Nagasakii 1 97 0 97 41 10 51 139 10 149
Oita 2 9 4 13 15 33 48 26 37 63
Kagoshima 1 21 0 21 7 15 22 29 15 44
Naha 2 5 0 5 3 7 10 10 7 17
Total 25 498 19 517 447 730 1,177 970 749 1,719
*Archdioceses / Tokyo Province, Osaka Province, Nagasaki Province

4) Sisters, Brothers and Members of Secular Institutes [page top]

Diocese Brothers Sisters Members of
Secular Institutes
Final Profession Temporary Profession Srs.
Total
Japanese Foreign Total Japanese Foreign Total Japanese Foreign Total Japanese Foreign Total
Sapporo 27 5 32 311 13 324 7 0 7 331 17 0 17
363Sendai 1 3 4 273 18 291 16 0 16 307 8 0 8
Niigata 0 0 0 94 3 97 3 0 3 100 15 0 15
Urawa 7 2 9 154 10 164 8 0 8 172 4 0 4
*Tokyo 64 26 90 1,397 138 1,535 57 4 61 1,596 61 5 66
Yokohama 7 10 17 555 26 581 16 0 16 597 10 0 10
Nagoya 9 1 10 164 39 203 6 1 7 210 60 0 60
Kyoto 1 5 6 210 36 246 9 0 9 255 21 0 21
*Osaka 19 6 25 626 59 685 14 1 15 700 16 0 16
Hiroshima 5 4 0 238 22 260 2 2 4 264 10 0 10
Takamatsu 1 0 1 88 5 93 2 0 2 95 0 0 0
Fukuoka 4 0 4 393 13 406 12 0 12 418 29 0 29
*Nagasakii 20 2 22 813 2 815 53 1 54 869 2 0 2
Oita 17 1 18 219 7 226 6 0 6 232 13 0 13
Kagoshima 2 3 5 199 4 203 9 0 9 212 2 0 2
Naha 2 1 3 67 1 68 3 1 4 72 0 0 0
Total 186 69 255 5,801 396 6,197 223 10 233 6,430 268 5 273
*Archdioceses / Tokyo Province, Osaka Province, Nagasaki Province