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Geumjeong Catholic Church is the church of a parish community in the Geumjeong District of the Diocese of Busan, with St. Paul the Apostle as its patron saint. It is a local parish where Catholics in Geumjeong-gu, Busan, share a life of faith centered on Mass, the sacraments, the Word, and prayer. Within the diocese's official parish structure, it serves as a community hub linking Catholics across the Geumjeong area. Its identity under the patronage of St. Paul the Apostle offers a spiritual sign for a community seeking to learn the Word and carry the Gospel into daily life.
To understand this place, it is important to look beyond the church building itself to the role of the parish community that gathers there. A parish is a place for the celebration of the liturgy and the reception of the sacraments, but also a center of lived Catholic community where generations learn the faith, parishioners build relationships, and believers practice their faith within the local area. Geumjeong Catholic Church continues to support this ordinary life of faith as one of the parishes of the Diocese of Busan's Geumjeong District.
History & origins
Geumjeong Parish was established on October 1, 1974. This date, preserved in the Catholic Directory in Korea, is the parish's official starting point that can be clearly verified today. In the years that followed, the Catholic community of the Geumjeong area continued its parish life and gradually strengthened its communal foundation through generations and neighborhood groups.
In 2014, for the fortieth anniversary of the parish, a program of monthly family pilgrimages by neighborhood group was organized as part of the commemorative activities. Diocesan news records the first pilgrimage on March 30 of that year, when about 120 family members from the Jangjeon-dong area visited Galmaemot Shrine. Rather than marking forty years only with a celebration, the parish connected the anniversary with a family and neighborhood pilgrimage to the faith of the Korean martyrs, revealing something of the spiritual direction valued by the community at the time.
On August 6, 2017, a blessing ceremony was held for the parish education building. This marked a further step in expanding space for faith formation and parish gatherings. The documented sequence from the parish's establishment in 1974 to the fortieth-anniversary family pilgrimage and the blessing of the education building shows a community that, over time, enlarged both its shared experiences of faith and the spaces that supported formation.
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Geumjeong Catholic Church: history and architecture
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Building information
- Passenger elevators: 0
- 3 above-ground floors · 1 below-ground floors
- Approved for use in 1981
- Total floor area: 2,488㎡
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Busan Diocese (Diocese of Busan)
Official website: https://www.catholicbusan.or.kr
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