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Cheorwon Church is the church of Cheorwon Parish of the Epiphany of the Lord in the Western District of the Diocese of Chuncheon. The diocese identifies the Epiphany of the Lord as the parish patron and presents the parish as a center of the Catholic community re-formed in the Cheorwon area after the Korean War. The Sisters of the Eucharistic Mission currently serve with the parish, which provides Mass, the sacraments, and community life for Catholics in and around Dongson.
Cheorwon is a border region deeply marked by division and the Korean War. The parish has sustained ordinary liturgical and Catholic life within that setting, making it a place where the daily life of a local parish naturally meets the Church’s prayer for reconciliation and peace. Visitors can understand Cheorwon Church as both a parish established during the postwar rebuilding of the region and a center of a community that has preserved its faith in a divided borderland.
History & origins
The Cheorwon parish community traces its beginnings to around 1955. According to the Diocese of Chuncheon, a Catholic named Stefano Shin moved from Myojang-myeon in Cheorwon to Dongson and gathered four or five Catholic households for prayer services in his home. The group was established as a mission station under Jungnim-dong Cathedral Parish, and a priest came each month to celebrate Mass.
In 1957 a church was built with prefabricated materials brought from Japan through a United States postwar reconstruction assistance program. On June 4 of that year the mission station was elevated to parish status and became the Parish of the Epiphany of the Lord. Its original territory was extensive, covering Cheorwon-eup, Galmal-myeon, Dongson-myeon, and Gwanin-myeon in Yeoncheon County, Gyeonggi Province, while also caring for the four mission stations of Jipo-ri, Gwanin, Munhye-ri, and Yonghwa. A new church building was completed in August 1985 and remains in use today.
Cheorwon’s identity as a divided border region continued to shape parish history. During the Great Jubilee of 2000, the Diocese of Chuncheon held a national “Day of Prayer for Reconciliation and Unity of the Korean People” near Woljeong-ri Station in Cheorwon, and parishioners from Cheorwon worked with Catholics from neighboring parishes to support the event. This history shows that Cheorwon Church is not only a parish formed during postwar reconstruction but also a community that has prayed for reconciliation and peace amid the continuing reality of division.
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Cheolwon Catholic Church: history and architecture
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