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Hoein Mission Station is a local Catholic community in Hoein-myeon, Boeun-gun, currently listed by the Diocese of Cheongju as a mission station. Its location in the package matches the official diocesan list, and the Korean Catholic Encyclopedia records Hoein among the mission stations under Boeun Parish. It should therefore be understood not as an independent parish but as a mission community connected with the pastoral care of the Catholic Church in the Boeun area.
In a township such as Hoein, where Catholics may live at some distance from the parish church, a mission station is an important local center where believers can pray together and maintain community life. Hoein Mission Station has meaning precisely as a place where local Catholics continue their faith life while remaining connected with the mother parish. Rather than focusing on changeable details such as Mass schedules or local operations, its essential character is that of a mission station extending parish pastoral care into the Hoein area.
History & origins
After Boeun Parish was separated from Okcheon Parish and established in 1955, the Catholic community in the Boeun area expanded its pastoral reach by forming mission stations in the surrounding townships. The Korean Catholic Encyclopedia records that Hoein Mission Station was established in 1963 during this period of growth. This is the key record identifying when the Catholic community in Hoein was organized as a distinct mission station within the parish structure.
Boeun Parish at that time served a broad rural territory, linking existing mission stations such as Songjuk, Hagae, and Baekseok with newer communities. The establishment of Hoein was part of this expansion of mission-station pastoral care. By having a local mission station, Catholics in Hoein-myeon were able to maintain a center for common prayer and community faith life without relying solely on travel to the parish church in Boeun-eup.
Detailed records of later building changes or relocations at Hoein are limited in the sources reviewed, but the current Diocese of Cheongju list still records a Hoein Mission Station at the same location. The verifiable history is therefore best centered on its establishment in 1963 and the continuity of the community to the present, illustrating how Boeun Parish developed a pastoral structure suited to a wide rural region.
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- Passenger elevators: 0
- 1 above-ground floors · 0 below-ground floors
- Approved for use in 1992
- Total floor area: 123㎡
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