About this place
Gaheung Mission Station is a Catholic mission station of the Diocese of Cheongju serving the local Catholic community in the Gaheung area of Jungangtap-myeon, Chungju. Its location on the official diocesan list of mission stations matches the package information, and the Korean Catholic Directory identifies Mokhaeng-dong Parish as its current mother parish. It is therefore not an independent parish, but a mission station operating within the pastoral territory of Mokhaeng-dong Parish.
Its status as a mission station is the key to understanding the place. As a local unit established so that Catholics living at some distance from the parish church can maintain community prayer and liturgical life, Gaheung Mission Station connects local believers with Mokhaeng-dong Parish. Within the pastoral care of the mother parish, Catholics gather as arrangements allow for Mass, the sacraments, and shared faith life. Gaheung therefore illustrates a characteristic form of Korean Catholic pastoral care in which a parish serving a broad area remains closely linked with smaller local mission communities.
History & origins
Gaheung Mission Station did not begin as a community of Mokhaeng-dong Parish. The Korean Catholic Encyclopedia’s history of Judeok Parish records that the first and second pastors of Judeok worked to develop nearby mission stations and established Monam, Gageum, Yeonhwa, Gaheung, and Yongwon between 1961 and 1965. This places the formation of Gaheung within Judeok Parish’s expansion of mission-station pastoral care in the first half of the 1960s.
As the Catholic population in the Chungju area grew, Mokhaeng-dong Parish was separated from Gyohyeon-dong Parish and established on September 15, 1971. The Korean Catholic Encyclopedia’s Mokhaeng-dong Parish entry lists Eomjeong, Dongnyang, Sancheok, Sotae, Gaheung, and Yadong among the mission stations under the new parish at the time of its establishment. Gaheung was thus incorporated into the pastoral structure of the newly created Mokhaeng-dong Parish and continued to serve as a local center of Catholic life.
The current Korean Catholic Directory still identifies Mokhaeng-dong Parish as the mother parish of Gaheung Mission Station. The verifiable history of Gaheung can therefore be summarized as its formation under Judeok Parish in the 1960s, its transfer into the newly established Mokhaeng-dong Parish in 1971, and its continuing connection with Mokhaeng-dong today. This sequence clearly illustrates how parish and mission-station jurisdictions were reorganized as the Catholic community grew in northern Chungju.
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- 1 above-ground floors · 0 below-ground floors
- Total floor area: 96㎡
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