Roman Catholic Diocese of Oita


The Roman Catholic Diocese of Oita is a suffragan Latin diocese in the Ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archbishopric of 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.
It was suppressed around 1660, having had the following incumbents :

; Ecclesiastical Superior of Miyazaki
;Apostolic Prefects of Miyazaki
;Suffragan Bishops of Oita''