About this place
This place is the Busan community of the Daughters of St. Paul, listed in the Catholic Church directory in Korea as a women's institute of consecrated life serving within the Diocese of Busan. The official English name of the institute is Daughters of St. Paul, and the Busan community continues its religious life and apostolate in Daecheong-dong. It should be understood as a religious-community house dedicated to the life and mission of the institute rather than as an ordinary territorial parish church.
The Daughters of St. Paul have a distinctive mission of proclaiming the Gospel through the means of social communication. Publishing and editing, bookstores, missionary education, and digital and social media are among the ways the sisters seek to communicate the Gospel in the language and media of each age. The Busan community is therefore connected to the local Church within this wider mission, serving as a base where an apostolate of communication is carried out from a foundation of prayer and consecrated life.
History & origins
The Daughters of St. Paul were founded in Alba, Italy, on June 15, 1915, by Blessed James Alberione. The institute was established to use the developing means of social communication for the proclamation of the Gospel. The sisters entered Korea on December 13, 1960, and opened their first St. Paul bookstore in Chungmuro the following year, beginning their apostolate of publishing and distribution.
The institute's official chronology records its entry into the Diocese of Busan in 1971. This formed part of the expansion of its Korean apostolate beyond Seoul into local Churches. In the decades that followed, the sisters broadened their missionary methods in response to changing media, moving beyond print into audiovisual media, biblical apostolates, the internet, and digital content.
The Catholic Church directory in Korea now lists the community in Daecheong-dong as the Busan community of the Daughters of St. Paul. The publicly available official chronology, however, does not specify when the Busan community moved to its present Daecheong-dong address. The history that can be stated securely therefore centers on the 1971 entry into the Diocese of Busan and the present existence of the Busan community; intermediate moves should not be asserted without further documentation.
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Building information
- Passenger elevators: 0
- 5 above-ground floors · 1 below-ground floors
- Approved for use in 1983
- Total floor area: 698㎡
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- 한국천주교주교회의 온라인 주소록
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Busan Diocese (Diocese of Busan)
Official website: https://www.catholicbusan.or.kr
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