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Nammiryang Parish belongs to the Samgye District of the Diocese of Busan and connects Catholics in the southern part of Miryang with those in the surrounding rural areas. The Catholic Church directory in Korea records Our Lady of the Rosary as its patron, and the parish currently includes the Namsan, Muan, and Oesan mission stations. One of its defining features is therefore the way Catholics who gather at the parish church and those who continue their faith life in the mission stations are linked within a single pastoral community.
Nammiryang is a center for Mass and the sacraments, catechesis, and parish organizations, while also serving as a point of connection between the parish’s pastoral care and mission communities dispersed across a wider area. In a parish that includes both an urban living area and rural districts, not every Catholic can reach the parish church from the same distance, so the relationship between the parish and its mission stations is important for understanding the community’s actual pattern of Catholic life.
Nammiryang should therefore be understood not simply as one church building but as the center of a regional Catholic community formed by the parish and its three mission stations. Relatively stable information such as the patron, the parish’s official diocesan affiliation, and the current mission-station structure provides visitors with the basic framework needed to understand the character of this place.
History & origins
Nammiryang Parish began in 2004 when it was separated from Miryang Parish and was initially called Yerim Parish. The Catholic Church directory in Korea records September 17, 2004, as its establishment date. According to a Catholic Times report on the later dedication of the new church, the new parish was centered at that time in Yerim-ri, Sangnam-myeon, Miryang, and began as an independent pastoral community for southern Miryang while also caring for three mission stations in the surrounding area.
As the community developed, securing a more stable parish church and facilities became an important task. The parish began preparing for a new church in 2008 and, after several years of preparation, held a groundbreaking ceremony on March 31, 2012, to begin construction. This was not merely the construction of another building: it marked a transition in which the parish center was being moved to a new location and space was being prepared for the community’s future life.
In October of the same year, the parish name was changed from Yerim to Nammiryang. The Catholic Church directory in Korea also records this change, which coincided with the period when the new church was being built and the parish center was shifting. The name “Nammiryang,” rather than the name of a single village, came to express the parish’s broader regional character.
The new church was built in Gagok-dong, Miryang, and dedicated on April 7, 2013, with Bishop Hwang Cheol-su presiding. The Catholic Times described it as a reinforced-concrete building with a site area of 2,394 square meters and a total floor area of 1,201 square meters. The sequence of the 2004 separation and beginning as Yerim Parish, preparations from 2008, the 2012 groundbreaking and name change, and the 2013 dedication provides a relatively clear outline of how Nammiryang became established as an independent parish community.
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Building information
- Passenger elevators: 1
- 2 above-ground floors · 1 below-ground floors
- Approved for use in 2013
- Total floor area: 1,201㎡
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