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Bugok Catholic Church (부곡 성당) is a parish in the Geumjeong District of the Catholic Diocese of Busan, serving Catholics in the Bugok area of Busan’s Geumjeong-gu through Mass, the sacraments, and parish community life. The official Catholic directory of Korea lists St. Andrew Kim Tae-gon, Korea’s first priest and a martyr saint, as the patron of the parish.
Having St. Andrew Kim as patron is an important key to understanding the spiritual character of Bugok Parish. It is a local community where ordinary Catholic life is lived, while the memory of martyrdom and priestly vocation in the Korean Church is kept close through its patron saint. Visitors can therefore see both its present role as a parish of the Geumjeong District and this broader symbolism within Korean Catholicism.
History & origins
The official date of establishment for Bugok Parish is October 23, 1988. A diocesan priest biography records that Fr. Park Yu-sik Andrew had already been appointed on July 21, 1988, as priest in charge of Bugok Catholic Church concurrently with another assignment. This indicates that pastoral preparation was under way before the parish was formally erected.
After its formal establishment, Bugok became a parish of the Geumjeong District in the Diocese of Busan and took St. Andrew Kim Tae-gon as its patron. The official sources presently available do not explain in detail which parish territory it was separated from or how its first church building was prepared, so those points are not inferred. The verifiable record therefore places the preparatory ministry and formal establishment of 1988 at the beginning of Bugok Parish’s history.
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