St. Matthew's Church Cathedral, Nagoya

The Anglican activities in Central Japan of Aichi, Gifu, Nagano, and Niigata prefectures began in 1873 when the Canadian Alexander Croft Shaw of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (SPG) came to Japan as a missionary, and visited Karuizawa, Nagano, for vacationing in 1886, and started his missionary activities there in 1886.

He later visited Nagoya, Gifu, and Nagano himself, and later also sent Canadian missionaries, thus laying the foundations of the Diocese of Chubu.

In the following year, a large conference was held in Nagoya, formally establishing the Diocese of Chubu, for the parishes in Aichi, Gifu, Nagano, and Niigata Prefectures.

The current church building was constructed in 1960 in the style similar to the Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi.

It houses the parish center of the Diocese of Chubu, and is also used as the chapel of the adjacent St. Mary's College, Nagoya.