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About this place
Daebu Catholic Church is the church of Daebu Parish in the Siheung-Ansan district of the Diocese of Incheon and serves as the liturgical and pastoral center for the Catholic community of Daebudo. The Guide to the Catholic Church in Korea records Daebu as a parish established in 1992, with Saint Catherine as its patron, and notes that it has one mission station. In the distinctive island-and-mainland setting of Daebudo, the parish church provides a stable base where local Catholics gather around Mass and the sacraments.
The pastoral life of Daebu Parish is not confined to the parish church itself but is also linked with Seongam Mission Station. The Korean bishops' guide to churches near tourist destinations likewise lists Daebu Parish and Seongam Mission Station as distinct but connected Catholic places on Daebudo. Daebu Catholic Church can therefore be understood as the central parish hub for the island's Catholic community, linking different local living areas through the relationship between parish church and mission station.
History & origins
The Catholic community of Daebudo was served as a mission station before the present parish was established. The history of Songnim-dong Parish in the Korean Catholic Encyclopedia records that the Daebudo mission station was transferred into the pastoral care of Songnim-dong Parish on April 15, 1971. This shows that by the early 1970s a Catholic community on Daebudo was already being maintained within the mission-station system away from a parish church.
The community later developed into an independent parish. According to the Guide to the Catholic Church in Korea, Daebu Parish was established on October 15, 1992. The transition from mission station to parish was an important change, giving Catholics on the island a parish-level structure for resident pastoral care, liturgy, and formation. Public sources do not provide a complete sequence of every jurisdictional change between 1971 and 1992, so unverified intermediate stages are not supplied here.
The parish territory was adjusted again in December 2005. When the Diocese of Incheon created Yeongheung Parish, all of Yeongheung-myeon and Pungdo-dong of Ansan were separated from Daebu Parish. Daebu was thereby refocused on the Catholic community of Daebudo. The successive stages of mission station, parish establishment in 1992, and territorial division in 2005 show how pastoral structures in the island region were reorganized as Catholic populations, transportation, and local living patterns changed.
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Building information
- Passenger elevators: 0
- 1 above-ground floors · 0 below-ground floors
- Approved for use in 1977
- Total floor area: 422㎡
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