The Bishop of South Tokyo was a historic title of a bishop in the Nippon Sei Ko Kai, or Anglican Church in Japan.
Edward Bickersteth (1850–1897) was the first Bishop of South Tokyo, from 1886 until his premature death in 1897. [1] He was born at Banningham, Norfolk, into a noted ecclesiastical family; his father was Bishop of Exeter from 1885 to 1900. [2]
The title of Bishop of South Tokyo was suspended in 1947 after the reorganization of the Nippon Sei Ko Kai into eleven dioceses.
The Nippon Sei Ko Kai, abbreviated as NSKK, sometimes referred to in English as the Anglican Episcopal Church in Japan, is the national Christian church representing the Province of Japan within the Anglican Communion.
Edward Henry Bickersteth was a bishop in the Church of England and he held the office of Bishop of Exeter between 1885 and 1900.
Protestants in Japan constitute a religious minority of about 0.45% of total population or 600,000 people in 2020.
Edward Bickersteth was an ordained Anglican missionary, Bishop of South Tokyo, and a leading figure in both the establishment of the Cambridge Mission to Delhi and in the early years of the Anglican Church in Japan.
William Awdry was the inaugural Bishop of Southampton and Osaka who subsequently served South Tokyo.
Herbert Hamilton Kelly, a priest of the Church of England, was the founder of the Society of the Sacred Mission (SSM), an Anglican religious order.
Samuel Heaslett (1875–1947) was an Anglican bishop.
St. Andrew's Cathedral, Yokohama (横浜聖アンデレ教会) is the Cathedral Church of the Yokohama Diocese of the Nippon Sei Ko Kai, the Anglican Church in Japan. The diocese includes all Nippon Sei Ko Kai churches in Chiba, Kanagawa, Shizuoka and Yamanashi prefectures.
Channing Moore Williams was an Episcopal Church missionary, later bishop, in China and Japan. Williams was a leading figure in the establishment of the Anglican Church in Japan. His commemoration in some Anglican liturgical calendars is on 2 December.
Cyril Kenneth Sansbury was an Anglican bishop in the second half of the 20th century.
Rt. Revd. Peter Yonetaro Matsui D.D. was an Anglican bishop of the Diocese of Tokyo, in the Nippon Sei Ko Kai, the Province of the Anglican Communion in Japan.
Paul Shinji Sasaki 、(March 11, 1885 – December 21, 1946) was an Anglican bishop of the Diocese of Mid-Japan and later of Tokyo, in the Nippon Sei Ko Kai, the Province of the Anglican Communion in Japan.
John Yasutaro Naide D.D. was an Anglican bishop of the Diocese of Osaka, in the Nippon Sei Ko Kai, the Province of the Anglican Communion in Japan. He was born in Wakayama Prefecture.
Charles Shriver Reifsnider was the Anglican bishop of North Tokyo in the Nippon Sei Ko Kai from 1935 to 1940. During his mission years in Japan from 1904 to 1941 he also served as the President of Rikkyo University from 1912 to 1940.
Alexander Croft Shaw M.A. was a minister of the Anglican Church of Canada. He is remembered as Archdeacon Shaw, minister to the British Legation in Tokyo and a leading figure in the early years of the Anglican Church in Japan.
St. Andrew's Cathedral, Tokyo (聖アンデレ主教座聖堂) is the Cathedral Church of the Tokyo Diocese of the Anglican Church in Japan.
The Reverend John Toshimichi Imai was the first Japanese-born ordained priest in the Nippon Sei Ko Kai, the Anglican Church in Japan.
The Right Reverend Arthur Lea was a Canadian Anglican bishop who served as Bishop of Kyushu.
John Charles Mann was an English Anglican bishop who served as Bishop of Kyushu in Japan.
St. Michael's Cathedral, located in Chūō-ku, Kobe, Japan, is the cathedral church of the Kobe Diocese of the Anglican Church in Japan, covering the Anglican/Episcopal parishes in Hyogo Prefecture of the Kansai Region, the six prefectures of the Chugoku Region, and the four prefectures of the Shikoku Region.
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