Lugawon Mission

About this place

Lugawon Mission Station is a Catholic mission station of the Diocese of Busan in Saengnim-myeon, Gimhae, Gyeongsangnam-do. The official Catholic directory's list of mission stations in the Diocese of Busan includes the name “Lugawon” together with this address, confirming both the identity of the place and its diocesan affiliation. Because a mission station is a smaller Catholic community and liturgical gathering place than an independent parish, Lugawon is best understood as a place where Catholics within a local or institutional community can continue prayer and liturgical life.

The same address also appears in the Diocese of Busan's social-welfare directory for “Lugawon (Yangji Village),” classified as a special village. The site is therefore an unusual case in which a Catholic social-welfare community and a mission station share the same physical base. The exact administrative relationship between the two entries and the operating pattern of Masses at the mission station cannot be established from the public official sources presently available, so visitors should understand its character as a mission station rather than assume the regular operation of an ordinary parish church.