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Uncheon Catholic Church is Christ the King Parish in the western district of the Diocese of Chuncheon. Centered on the Uncheon area of Yeongbuk-myeon, Pocheon, it serves the faithful through Mass, the sacraments, and parish community life. Its official diocesan name is “Uncheon Christ the King Parish.” The parish is distinctive for having developed in the historical environment of northern Pocheon, a border-region area with a strong military presence.
The parish is both the Catholic center of the Uncheon area and a pastoral base connected with nearby mission stations. From its mission-station period, local Catholics and military chaplains shared responsibility for sustaining faith life after the Korean War. It later became an independent parish within the western pastoral structure of the Diocese of Chuncheon. This background gives Uncheon Parish the character of both a local community and a place preserving the Catholic history of a postwar border region.
The parish has also been important because its jurisdiction connected several communities and mission stations across northern Pocheon. When nearby mission stations were transferred to Uncheon after it became an independent parish, the church took on a role beyond serving Catholics in the town of Uncheon itself. It became a center linking a broader network of Catholic communities in the western district, a background that remains important for understanding the parish today.
History & origins
The Catholic community in Uncheon began as a mission station of Uijeongbu Parish. After the Korean War, a military chaplain serving units stationed in the Pocheon area celebrated Mass and cared for the community. When Pocheon Mission Station was elevated to a parish in 1954, Uncheon became a mission station under Pocheon Parish.
On the night of December 28, 1967, the mission-station building was destroyed by fire. With support from Pocheon Parish, a new site was obtained and a new mission chapel of about forty pyeong was built. It was blessed on September 1, 1968, by Archbishop Stephen Kim Sou-hwan, then Archbishop of Seoul. When Pocheon Parish was transferred to the Diocese of Chuncheon in 1969, Uncheon Mission Station was transferred with it.
Uncheon Mission Station was elevated to a parish on November 17, 1970. At that time, the Gwanin, Jipori, Munhye-ri, and Yangmun mission stations were placed under the new parish, making it a pastoral center for the western region. The old mission building continued to be used for years, but a church-building committee was formed in 1990, and a new church was eventually dedicated by Bishop John Chang Yik on March 6, 1995.
The changes at Uncheon also reflect the postwar reorganization of pastoral structures in a border region. Its passage from a mission station of Uijeongbu Parish, to one under Pocheon Parish, and finally to a parish of the Diocese of Chuncheon shows how the Catholic community was reorganized according to pastoral needs and regional realities rather than civil boundaries alone. The transfer of several mission stations to the new parish at the time of its elevation signaled Uncheon’s establishment as an independent pastoral center for the western area.
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Building information
- Passenger elevators: 0
- 2 above-ground floors · 1 below-ground floors
- Approved for use in 1994
- Total floor area: 1,183㎡
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