Holy Spirit Retreat Center

About this place

Seongnyeong Hoegwan, or the Holy Spirit Center, is listed in the Catholic Church directory in Korea as a retreat and prayer house belonging to the Catholic Diocese of Cheongju, located in the Chojeong area of Bugil-myeon, Cheongju. The diocesan Catholic Charismatic Renewal Service is associated with the same address, and official diocesan event notices call the facility “Chojeong Holy Spirit Center” and identify it as a venue for retreats and devotional programs organized by the diocesan renewal service. It is therefore not a parish church but a diocesan facility dedicated to prayer and spiritual formation.

Its actual use corresponds closely to that identity. The Diocese of Cheongju has held overnight healing retreats and multi-week Marian spirituality seminars at the center, combining talks, praise, Mass, and prayer. Visitors should therefore understand it neither as an independent parish nor as a shrine, but as a spiritual house where Catholics from across the diocese gather for prayer, retreat, and the spirituality of Catholic Charismatic Renewal. The continuing program of spiritual activities makes the center a practical home for the diocese's retreat and prayer ministry, and its gathering of Catholics from multiple parishes is a distinctive feature of the place.