Diocese of Chuncheon

Diocese of Chuncheon

Dioecesis Chuncheonensis

춘천교구
Location
Country South Korea
partly in North Korea
TerritoryNorthern part of Gangwon
Ecclesiastical provinceSeoul
MetropolitanSeoul
Statistics
Area12,016 km2 (4,639 sq mi)
Population
  • Total
  • Catholics
  • (as of 2017)
  • 1,139,033
  • 89,446 (7.9%)
Parishes61
Information
DenominationCatholic
Sui iuris churchLatin Church
RiteRoman Rite
Established25 April 1939 (87 years ago)
CathedralCathedral of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Chuncheon
Current leadership
PopeLeo XIV
BishopSimon Kim Ju-young
Metropolitan ArchbishopAndrew Yeom Soo-jung
Bishops emeritusLucas Kim Woon-hoe
Map
Website
cccatholic.or.kr

The Diocese of Chunchon (also romanized Chuncheon and Ch’unch’on, Latin: Dioecesis Chuncheonensis) is a Latin Catholic diocese of the 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.

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

Ordinaries

Apostolic Prefects of Chunchon

Apostolic Vicars of Chunchon

  • Thomas F. Quinlan, S.S.C.M.E. (1955–1962)

Bishops of Chunchon

References

  1. ^ "Diocese of Ch'unch'on". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. Retrieved 2008-05-17.
  2. ^ "Diocese of Chuncheon". Giga Catholic. Retrieved 2014-02-12.
  3. ^ Kim Jin-hyeong (2020-11-23). "두 주교가 아낀 춘천의 젊은 사제, 80년 교구 염원 이뤘다" (in Korean). The Kangwon Domin Ilbo. Retrieved 2020-11-27.
  4. ^ Do Jae-gi (2020-11-22). "신임 춘천교구장에 김주영 신부" (in Korean). Kyunghyang Shinmun. Retrieved 2020-11-27.
  • (in Korean) [1]

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