Sisters of Charity of Seton

About this place

The Sisters of Charity of Seton Hill community in Chungju is identified in the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Korea directory as the “Chungju Seton Community,” a religious community belonging to the Diocese of Cheongju. Its listed address matches the place in this package, confirming the identity of the location. The congregation follows the spirit of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton and the Vincentian tradition, emphasizing concrete love and service toward people in poverty and need.

The congregation began with educational ministry and has expanded its apostolates to social welfare, specialized pastoral work, parish ministry, spiritual retreats, and mission according to the needs of different times and places. In Korea it carries this spirit through communities and apostolates in several dioceses, and the Chungju Seton Community is its local religious house within the Diocese of Cheongju. This place should therefore be understood not as a territorial parish church but as a center of religious life where sisters live in community, pray, and carry out their apostolate. Its primary meaning lies in the religious life through which the spirituality of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton and the congregation’s tradition of charitable service are lived within the local Church.