About this place
Cheondeok Mission Station is a Catholic mission community of the Diocese of Cheongju located in Maegok-myeon, Yeongdong County, and the Catholic Directory in Korea identifies it as a mission station under Hwanggan Parish. The official mission-station list of the Diocese of Cheongju also records Cheondeok at the same location, confirming both the identity of the place and its pastoral relationship with Hwanggan Parish.
For Catholics in the Maegok-myeon area, Cheondeok Mission Station is a local point where they can gather for prayer and remain connected with their parish while continuing the life of faith close to home. Because it is not an independent parish with a resident priest but a mission station under the pastoral care of Hwanggan Parish, its Mass and sacramental life are sustained within that relationship with the mother parish. It is a clear example of the role mission stations play in linking Catholics in a broad rural area with their parish.
History & origins
The exact year in which Cheondeok Mission Station first began is not clear in the available public sources, but Hwanggan Parish, to which Cheondeok belongs, was established from Yeongdong Parish on October 5, 1957, with Maegok-myeon included in its territory. This created the parish framework within which the Catholic community in the Cheondeok area would receive pastoral care.
The Catholic Encyclopedia of Korea records that Father Herbert, the second pastor of Hwanggan Parish, worked to develop the mission stations and began construction projects for Sangchon, Maegok, and Cheondeok mission stations in June 1964. The work was completed in November 1966. This is the clearest verified milestone showing how the worship space of Cheondeok Mission Station was developed during the expansion of rural mission work by Hwanggan Parish in the 1960s.
Cheondeok has continued as a mission station under Hwanggan Parish. The Catholic Directory in Korea still identifies it as belonging to Hwanggan Parish, and the official Diocese of Cheongju mission-station list continues to record its present location in Maegok-myeon. Cheondeok Mission Station therefore preserves a tangible legacy of the rural pastoral network developed by Hwanggan Parish to serve Catholics across the broad eastern Yeongdong area.
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- Passenger elevators: 0
- 1 above-ground floors · 0 below-ground floors
- Total floor area: 99㎡
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- 한국천주교주교회의 온라인 주소록
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