Diocese of Chuncheon
Chuncheonen(sis)
Suffragan diocese · Latin Church · Chuncheon, South Korea
Latin-rite diocese in Chuncheon, Gangwon-do, South Korea, erected as a missionary jurisdiction split from the Apostolic Vicariate of Seoul in 1939 and elevated to diocese on March 10, 1962. It is suffragan of the Archdiocese of Seoul, with its seat at Jungnim-dong Cathedral in Chuncheon.
The see
- Rank
- Suffragan diocese
- Tradition
- Latin Church
- Erected
- 9 June 2021
- Latin
- Chuncheonen(sis)
- Patron
- Sagrado Corazón de Jesús
- Annuario code
- 001001151
The see in figures
- Catholics
- 89,446
- Population
- 1,139,033
- Catholic share
- 7.9%
- Priests
- 139
- Catholics per priest
- 643
- Extent
- 12,016 km²
- Catholics per km²
- 7.4
of the people living within its bounds
Figures as recorded in the register, from the Annuario Pontificio and the see's own published statements. Shares and ratios are computed from the two figures shown beside them.
The bishop
- Bishop
- Simon Kim Ju-young
- Born
- 3 March 1970
- Birthplace
- Seoul
A see whose chair stands empty is recorded as vacant rather than filled with a guess. On what a bishop is, see the bishop.
The cathedral
Jungnim-dong Cathedral, Chuncheon stands in Chuncheon, the church that holds the cathedra from which this see takes its name.
On what a cathedral is, see the cathedral; every see church on earth is gathered at the cathedrals.
The province of Seoul
A suffragan of Archdiocese of Seoul.
The sees of this province:
- Archdiocese of SeoulSeoul
- Diocese of DaejeonDaejeon
- Diocese of HamhƒngHamhƒng
- Diocese of IncheonIncheon
- Diocese of P'yŏng-yangP'yŏng-yang
- Diocese of SuwonSuwon
- Diocese of UijeongbuUijeongbu
- Diocese of WonjuWonju
On how the Church is ordered into provinces, see the diocese.
History
A Latin Catholic see in South Korea, the Diocese of Chunchon (also romanized Chuncheon and Ch’unch’on, Latin: Dioecesis Chuncheonensis) is a suffragan within the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Seoul. Its ecclesiastic authority extends over the administrative province of Gangwon-do, and its cathedral mother church is Jungnim-dong Cathedral in Chuncheon.
What is kept by invitation
The record above is published because it is public: what this see is, when it was erected, who holds its chair, and where it stands among its neighbours.
The working record is not. The chancery's address, telephone and email, the clergy of the see, and the hours of Mass, confession and adoration in the parishes within it are kept for members, and a person reads every request.
Sources
The see's own website · Wikipedia
This record is compiled from the published statements of the see and the references of the Holy See, among them the Annuario Pontificio. On the method, see the keeping of the record. Whoever finds an error is asked, in charity, to write: [email protected].