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The '''Church of Japan''' (日本ハリストス正教会) is an [[autonomy|autonomous]] Orthodox church, whose [[primate]] is confirmed by the [[Church of Russia]].
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The '''Church of Japan''' (日本ハリストス正教会) is an [[autonomy|autonomous]] Orthodox church, whose [[primate]] is confirmed by the [[Church of Russia]].
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==History==
St. [[Nicholas of Japan]] ([[baptism|baptized]] as Ivan Dimitrievich Kasatkin) brought Orthodoxy to Japan in the 19th Century. In 1861 he was sent by the [[Church of Russia]] to Hakodate, Hokkaido, as a [[priest]] to a chapel of the Russian consulate. Though the contemporary Shogun's government prohibited the Japanese [[conversion]] to Christianity, soon some neighbors who frequently visited the chapel converted—Nicholas's first three converts in Japan. While they were his first converts in Japan, they were not the first Japanese to do so—some Japanese who had settled in Russia had converted to Orthodoxy.
==Hierarchy==
===Diocesan bishops===
* [[Daniel (Nushiro) of Japan|Daniel (Nushiro)]], Archbishop of Tokyo, Metropolitan of All Japan
===Retired and former bishops===
* [[Seraphim (Sigrist) of Sendai|Seraphim (Sigrist)]], Bishop of Sendai and Eastern Japan
==Related articles==
*[[List of parishes in Japan]]
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