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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Oita ((ラテン語:Oitaen(sis)), (日本語:カトリック大分教区 )) is a suffragan Latin diocese in the Ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archbishopric of Nagasaki 長崎 in southern Japan. Its cathedral episcopal see is the Cathedral of St. Francis Xavier (Oita Church), in the city of Ōita. == Diocese of Funai == The first Catholic jurisdiction of Otai's territory was established on 19 February 1588, during Portuguese colonisal prominence and missionary efforts in the Far East, as the Diocese of Funai (or Funay), on territory split off from the colonial Roman Catholic Diocese of Macau. It was suppressed around 1660, having had the following incumbents (all Portuguese missionary members of Latin Congregations) : * Sebastião de Morais de Funchal, Jesuits (S.J.) (1588.02.19 – death 1588.08.19) * Pedro Martins, S.J. (1592.02.17 –death 1598.02.18) * Luis Cerqueira, S.J. (1598.02.18 – death 1614.02.15), succeeding as former Coadjutor Bishop of Funai 府内 (1593.01.29 – 1598.02.18) & Titular Bishop of Tiberias (1593.01.29 – 1598.02.18) * Diogo Correia Valente (華), S.J. (1618.01.08 – death 1633.10.28), also Apostolic Administrator of mother diocese Macau 澳門 (Macau, Portuguese China) (1626.08.27 – 1633.10.28) *''Apostolic Administrator (1638.02.26 – 1653) Francesco Antonio Frascella, Conventual Franciscans (O.F.M. Conv.), Titular Archbishop of Myra (1637.11.14 – 1653) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Roman Catholic Diocese of Oita」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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