Nathaniel Makoto Uematsu


Nathaniel Makoto Uematsu
Primate of the Nippon Sei Ko Kai, Bishop of Hokkaido
ChurchNippon Sei Ko Kai
DioceseDiocese of Hokkaido
In office2006–2020
SuccessorLuke Kenichi Muto
Orders
Ordination1984
Consecration1997
Personal details
Born1952
NationalityJapanese
DenominationAnglican

Nathaniel Makoto Uematsu (植松 誠 ナタナエル) is a Japanese Anglican bishop. He was the bishop of the diocese of Hokkaidō, Japan, from 1997 to 2022, and was the primate of the Nippon Sei Ko Kai, the province of the Anglican Communion in Japan, from 2006 to 2020.

Uematsu became primate on 23 May 2006 having previously worked as a curate at St. Mark's in Ashiya, Osaka, as rector at Holy Trinity in the same city, and as general secretary of the Provincial Office of the Nippon Sei Ko Kai.

Uematsu is a 1982 master of divinity graduate of the Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest in Austin, Texas.