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Catholic Oura Church

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Catholic Oura Church
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Catholic Oura Church
Phone:
+81 95-827-0623

Address:
2-18 Minamiyamatemachi, Nagasaki 850-0931, Nagasaki Prefecture

Christian missionaries arrived with Francis Xavier and the Jesuits in the 1540s and briefly flourished, with over 100,000 converts, including many daimyōs in Kyushu. It soon met resistance from the highest office holders of Japan. Emperor Ogimachi issued edicts to ban Catholicism in 1565 and 1568, but to little effect. Beginning in 1587 with imperial regent Toyotomi Hideyoshi's ban on Jesuit missionaries, Christianity was repressed as a threat to national unity. After the Tokugawa shogunate banned Christianity in 1620 it ceased to exist publicly. Many Catholics went underground, becoming hidden Christians , while others lost their lives. Only after the Meiji Restoration was Christianity re-established in Japan.
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