Cheongpung Mission

History & origins

The Catholic Directory of Korea records 1962 as the establishment year of 청풍공소, showing that the community had a recognized place as a Catholic mission station by the early 1960s. In later decades, its pastoral affiliation changed as parish territories in the Jecheon area were reorganized.

According to the Korean Catholic Encyclopedia's history of Seobudong Parish, Cheongpung Mission Station was transferred from Namcheon-dong Parish to Seobudong Parish on February 21, 1995. A 2003 Catholic Times report, however, again identifies 청풍공소 as a mission station of Namcheon-dong Parish and records the blessing of a Marian statue there on July 15 of that year, presided over by the diocesan bishop. Publicly available sources do not establish the exact date on which it was transferred back from Seobudong to Namcheon-dong.

The current directory lists Namcheon-dong as its mother parish, so the present affiliation is clear. The verifiable historical sequence can therefore be summarized as establishment in 1962, transfer to Seobudong in 1995, and confirmation that it was again under Namcheon-dong by 2003 at the latest. Avoiding an invented date for the return transfer preserves the limits of the surviving public record.