About this place
Oryong Mission Station is a Catholic mission station of the Diocese of Andong in Yeongsun-myeon, Mungyeong. The Catholic Directory of Korea lists Oryong as a mission station of the diocese and records May 20, 1956, as its establishment date. Unlike a parish with a resident priest, a mission station provides a local gathering place where Catholics in a dispersed area can pray together and continue their liturgical and communal life close to home.
The significance of Oryong lies in the way it has preserved a place of communion for Catholics scattered across a rural district. Publicly available sources contain only limited detail about its chronology, but the record of its formal establishment in the mid-1950s places it within a period when parishes and mission stations across the Mungyeong area were expanding the local foundations of Catholic life. Oryong continues to represent that local tradition of faith in a small community setting.
History & origins
The Catholic Directory of Korea records May 20, 1956, as the establishment date of Oryong Mission Station. This falls within the period after the Korean War when parish and mission-station structures in northern Gyeongsangbuk-do were being reorganized and expanded. The historical materials of the Diocese of Andong likewise show a broader pattern in the late 1950s of new parishes being established and pastoral networks extending into rural and mountainous districts.
The publicly available diocesan and episcopal-conference sources do not provide enough detail to verify the construction of Oryong's first building, its first lay leader, or later renovations and relocations. For that reason, unverified oral accounts or dates from secondary sources are not added here. The confirmed 1956 record is retained as the firm historical anchor, showing that Oryong emerged in the mid-twentieth-century effort to create places of prayer and sacramental life closer to Catholic communities in the Mungyeong area.
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