Roman Catholic Diocese of Chunchon

The Diocese of Chunchon (also romanized Chuncheon and Ch’unch’on, Latin: Dioecesis Chuncheonensis) is a particular church of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in South Korea. A suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Seoul, it has ecclesiastic authority over the administrative province of Gangwon-do.

Diocese of Chuncheon

Dioecesis Chuncheonensis

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Location
Country South Korea
Ecclesiastical provinceSeoul
MetropolitanSeoul
Statistics
Area17,000 km2 (6,600 sq mi)
Population
- Total
- Catholics		(as of 2006)
1,190,735
73,366 (6.2%)
Parishes49
Information
DenominationCatholic
Sui iuris churchLatin Church
RiteRoman Rite
Established25 April 1939 (81 years ago)
CathedralCathedral of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Chuncheon
Current leadership
PopeFrancis
BishopLucas Kim Woon-hoe
Metropolitan ArchbishopAndrew Yeom Soo-jung
Map
Website
cccatholic.or.kr

Its cathedral episcopal see mother church is Jungnim-dong Cathedral in Chuncheon.

History

The jurisdiction was erected on April 25, 1939 as a missionary pre-diocesan jurisdiction on territory split off from the Apostolic Vicariate of Seoul under the name Apostolic Prefecture of Shunsen, the city's name during the period of Japanese rule of Korea.

It was renamed the Apostolic Prefecture of Chunchon on July 16, 1950 and made an Apostolic vicariate on September 20, 1955.

It was elevated to diocesan status on March 10, 1962.[1][2]

On 22 March 1965, it lost territory to establish the Diocese of Wonju 원주

List of bishops

...

  • Monsignor Owen McPolin (1939–1941)-Apostolic Administrator
  • Bishop Paul Noh Gi-nam (1941–1945)-Apostolic Administrator
  • Bishop Thomas F. Quinlan (1945–1966)
  • Bishop Thomas Stewart (1966–1994)
  • Bishop John Chang-yik (1994–2010)
  • Bishop Luke Kim Woon-hoe (2010–present)
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References
  1. "Diocese of Ch'unch'on". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. Retrieved 2008-05-17.
  2. "Diocese of Chuncheon". Giga Catholic. Retrieved 2014-02-12.
  • (in Korean)

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