Suffragan diocese Chuncheon, South Korea
Diocese of Chuncheon
Chuncheonen(sis)
Latin Church
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.
On the map
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- Established
- 1939
- Catholics
- 89,446
- Priests
- 139
- Territory
- 12,016 km²
Parishes and churches
61 listed churches in our records. Open a parish for Mass times, confession, directions and sources where recorded.
- 신남 본당Town not recordedView parish
- 애막골 본당Town not recordedView parish
- 양구 본당Town not recordedView parish
- 양덕원 본당Town not recordedView parish
- 양양 본당Town not recordedView parish
- 연봉 본당Town not recordedView parish
- 옥계 본당Town not recordedView parish
- 옥천동 본당Town not recordedView parish
- 우두 본당Town not recordedView parish
- 운교동 본당Town not recordedView parish
- 운천 본당Town not recordedView parish
- 원통 본당Town not recordedView parish
- 이동 본당Town not recordedMass times recorded
- 인제 본당Town not recordedView parish
- 일동 본당Town not recordedView parish
- 임당동 본당Town not recordedMass times recorded
- 입암 본당Town not recordedView parish
- 주문진 본당Town not recordedView parish
- 진부 본당Town not recordedView parish
- 철원 본당Town not recordedView parish
- 청평 본당Town not recordedView parish
- 청호동 본당Town not recordedView parish
- 초당 본당Town not recordedMass times recorded
- 퇴계 본당Town not recordedMass times recorded
- 포천 본당Town not recordedView parish
- 해안 본당Town not recordedView parish
- 현리 본당Town not recordedView parish
- 홍천 본당Town not recordedView parish
- 화천 본당Town not recordedView parish
- 효자동 본당Town not recordedView parish
This is our recorded coverage, not an official diocesan parish count. Confirm service times with the parish before travelling.
The bishop
- Bishop
- Simon Kim Ju-young
- Born
- 3 March 1970
- Birthplace
- Seoul
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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.
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.