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Shinbong-dong Catholic Church is a parish church of the Heungdeok District in the Diocese of Cheongju. It serves as a center of faith where Catholics in the Bongmyeong-dong and Shinbong-dong area of Heungdeok-gu, Cheongju, gather for Mass, the sacraments, prayer, and community life. The Diocese of Cheongju identifies Saint Stephen as the parish patron and currently lists Shinbong-dong among the parishes of the Heungdeok District.
Located in the middle of an urban residential area, Shinbong-dong is best understood not as a shrine centered on a particular pilgrimage relic but as a parish that sustains the ordinary faith life of local Catholics close to where they live. The church is a place for the Eucharist and other sacraments such as Baptism and Reconciliation, as well as catechesis, prayer, and fellowship. Rather than viewing it only as a building, visitors can understand its significance as the home of a Catholic community formed within the everyday life of western Cheongju and continuing its faith today.
History & origins
The formation of Shinbong-dong Parish is best understood within the urbanization of western Cheongju and the successive division of existing parishes. According to the Korean Catholic Encyclopedia’s history of Bongmyeong-dong Parish, a new urban area began to develop in western Cheongju in the late 1970s and the population increased rapidly. Sachang-dong Parish was separated from Sajik-dong Parish in 1981, and Bongmyeong-dong Parish was then separated from Sachang-dong in 1986. As the city expanded, the pastoral territories serving Catholic communities became increasingly subdivided.
As the population and number of Catholics around Bongmyeong-dong continued to grow, Bongmyeong 2-dong Parish was newly established on July 25, 1992, and this community became today’s Shinbong-dong Parish. The same date is confirmed by the current records of the Diocese of Cheongju. With the creation of the new parish, the existing Bongmyeong-dong Parish transferred the relevant parish registers and for a time used the name “Bongmyeong 1-dong Parish,” before returning to the name Bongmyeong-dong Parish in 1996.
This chronology shows how new parishes were created from existing ones in response to residential expansion and a growing Catholic population in western Cheongju. Shinbong-dong did not emerge in isolation; it took shape within a sequence of pastoral divisions extending through Sajik-dong, Sachang-dong, and Bongmyeong-dong. This background helps explain the parish as a Catholic community formed alongside the growth of the western urban area of Cheongju.
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Building information
- Passenger elevators: 1
- 4 above-ground floors · 2 below-ground floors
- Approved for use in 1998
- Total floor area: 2,288㎡
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