About this place
Dotae Mission Station belongs to Gaeun Parish in the Diocese of Andong and serves the local Catholic community in the Dotae area of Gaeun-eup, Mungyeong. Together with the other mission stations of Gaeun Parish, it forms part of a pastoral network across mountainous and rural communities and helps Catholics in the Dotae area remain connected with the parish.
In an area such as Gaeun, where villages are widely dispersed, a mission station gives Catholics who live far from the parish church a nearby place to pray together and receive pastoral care from the parish. Dotae is therefore best understood not as an independent parish but as a local point through which the community of Gaeun Parish reaches its surrounding villages. This current relationship is consistent in both the diocesan list and the bishops’ conference directory.
History & origins
Dotae Mission Station was established in 1959. At the time, parish and mission-station structures in the Mungyeong area were being rapidly reorganized under the pastoral influence of the Waegwan Apostolic Vicariate and Benedictine missionaries. The establishment of Dotae Mission Station belongs to this wider period in which Catholic community life was extending into the mountainous areas of Mungyeong.
During the 1960s, pastoral jurisdictions around Gaeun and Mungyeong were adjusted while rural mission stations continued to serve local Catholics. Public sources reviewed for this task do not provide a reliable record of Dotae’s earliest building or first local leader, but the Diocese of Andong’s present records clearly register it as a mission station of Gaeun Parish.
When the Diocese of Andong was established in 1969, the Sangju and Mungyeong territories that had been under the Waegwan vicariate were incorporated into the new diocese. Dotae Mission Station continued through this diocesan reorganization and remains one of the mission communities of Gaeun Parish. Unverified details of its earliest period are not inferred here; only the documented founding year and the broader changes in jurisdiction are presented.
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- Passenger elevators: 0
- 1 above-ground floors · 0 below-ground floors
- Total floor area: 62㎡
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