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About this place
Doryang Catholic Church is a parish of the Archdiocese of Daegu serving Doryang-dong and the surrounding area of Gumi. It is a place where Catholics share Mass, the sacraments, catechesis, and parish community life. Its patron is Saint Paul Chong Hasang, the Korean lay leader and martyr, giving the parish a clear symbolic connection with the history and faith tradition of the Catholic Church in Korea.
Established amid the urban expansion of Gumi, Doryang organizes the ordinary Catholic life of local believers as an independent parish, with the liturgical and sacramental life proper to a community served by a resident priest. In a homily for the parish’s 20th anniversary, the archdiocese explained the establishment of the parish together with the appointment of its first pastor. This helps visitors understand Doryang not primarily as a building, but as a pastoral community formed by priest and faithful together.
History & origins
The establishment of Doryang Parish is documented with unusual clarity in an official archdiocesan homily. By a priestly personnel decree dated August 30, 1996, the Archdiocese of Daegu created Doryang Parish and appointed Father Pius Park Soo-tae as its first pastor. In recalling this event, the archdiocese explained that the appointment of a priest responsible for a parish territory is a central element in the canonical and pastoral establishment of a parish.
Doryang subsequently developed as an independent parish community in Gumi. On September 25, 2016, a Mass commemorated the 20th anniversary of the parish, and the homily explicitly looked back to the creation of the parish and the appointment of its first pastor twenty years earlier. The 1996 personnel decree and the 2016 anniversary therefore provide two firm points connecting the parish’s origin and continuity in official sources.
The publicly available archdiocesan materials do not provide a complete chronology of the first church building or later changes to the facilities. It is therefore more accurate to present Doryang’s history around its verifiable administrative establishment and the continuity of its community, leaving detailed architectural history to be added only when further official evidence is available.
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Building information
- Passenger elevators: 1
- 3 above-ground floors · 1 below-ground floors
- Approved for use in 2001
- Total floor area: 2,333㎡
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Official website: http://www.daegu-archdiocese.or.kr
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