Tutzing Benedictine Sisters Daegu Convent

About this place

This place is the Andong community of the Missionary Benedictine Sisters of Tutzing, Daegu Priory. The Catholic Church directory of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Korea lists it as a religious community belonging to the Diocese of Andong and confirms its presence in the Hamchang area. It is therefore more accurate to understand this location not as the Daegu motherhouse itself, but as the Andong branch belonging to the Daegu Priory.

The Missionary Benedictine Sisters of Tutzing are an international congregation that joins missionary service to a Benedictine life of seeking God in community. The congregation’s official materials describe priories and communities in a number of countries across several continents. The Andong community in Hamchang can thus be understood as a local expression of Benedictine prayer, common life, and mission within the particular Church of the Diocese of Andong.

The congregation’s official overview also places this community within a much wider international missionary network. The significance of the Hamchang house is therefore clearer when it is understood not by its size or administrative rank, but as a local embodiment of an international Benedictine missionary tradition within the life of a particular Church.