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About this place
Deoksu Catholic Church is a parish of the Archdiocese of Daegu in northern Pohang, serving Catholics in Deoksu-dong and surrounding areas through Mass and the sacraments. Its patron is Our Lady of the Rosary. Within the urban life of Pohang, the parish is a community in which Catholics regularly gather for liturgy, catechesis, fellowship, and service, while Marian devotion is reflected in its patronal tradition.
Deoksu also has significance as one of the earlier parishes established when the Catholic community of Pohang was expanding from a single parish center into a network of local parishes. It became an independent community relatively early in that process and continues to serve as a parish sustaining the ordinary Catholic life of the northern central area of the city.
History & origins
The official directory of the Archdiocese of Daegu records January 4, 1978, as the establishment date of Deoksu Parish. An archdiocesan monthly magazine, in a retrospective on the evangelization history of Pohang, states that in March of the same year Deoksu was separated from Pohang Parish—today’s Jukdo Catholic Church—as the city’s second parish. Although the administrative establishment date and the narrative date of separation differ, both sources identify 1978 as the year in which the Deoksu community began as an independent parish.
The establishment of Deoksu was an early example of the later proliferation of parishes in the Pohang area. As the Catholic population and residential districts expanded after the establishment of Pohang Parish in 1950, additional independent pastoral territories became necessary. The separation of Deoksu therefore marked an important transition toward a more distributed Catholic pastoral network in Pohang.
On October 28, 2018, the parish celebrated the 40th anniversary of its establishment with a Mass of Thanksgiving, during which 115 people received Confirmation. The anniversary formally marked the continuity of a community begun in 1978 that had continued its Catholic life as an independent parish through decades of change in Pohang.
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- Passenger elevators: 1
- 3 above-ground floors · 0 below-ground floors
- Approved for use in 2011
- Total floor area: 2,078㎡
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