Ecclesiastical province Seoul Parishes 49 Rite Roman Rite Phone +82 33-240-6000 | Metropolitan Seoul Denomination Roman Catholic Area 17,000 km² Country South Korea | |
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Population
- Total
- Catholics (as of 2006)
1,190,735
73,366 (6.2%) Address 300 Gongji-ro, Hyoja 2(i)-dong, Chuncheon, Gangwon-do, South Korea Province Gangwon Province, South Korea Similar 애막골성당, 천주교애막골성당, 죽림동성당, 스무숲성당, 애막골테니스장 | ||
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.
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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.
On 22 March 1965, it lost territory to establish the Diocese of Wonju 원주
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