About this place
The community of the Order of Friars Minor Conventual at this address is registered in the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Korea directory as the 'Daegu Immaculate Conception Friary / Novitiate.' Its official English name is Order of Friars Minor Conventual (O.F.M. Conv.), and the house serves both as a religious community and as a place for the formation of novices within the Archdiocese of Daegu.
Because it functions as a novitiate, the house is distinct from a territorial parish that has pastoral jurisdiction over local Catholics. It is a place where Franciscan vocations are discerned and initial religious formation is received through common prayer and fraternal religious life, while also providing a community base from which friars are connected with apostolic work in the local Church.
History & origins
The Order of Friars Minor Conventual belongs to the Franciscan tradition, and the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Korea directory records April 16, 1209, as the date of the order's foundation. The friars have continued communal religious life and apostolic work within the long Franciscan tradition, and the order entered Korea in October 1958.
After entering Korea, the order established religious communities in a number of regions. The community in Daegu is now officially registered as the 'Daegu Immaculate Conception Friary / Novitiate.' The designation 'novitiate' indicates that the Daegu house is not simply a residence but a house entrusted with initial religious formation.
The official sources reviewed do not identify the date when the Daegu friary itself was established or when it moved to its present location. The historical context is therefore limited to the origin of the order, its entry into Korea, and the verified present existence of the Daegu novitiate, without inferring a local chronology that is not documented.
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- Passenger elevators: 0
- 3 above-ground floors · 0 below-ground floors
- Approved for use in 1997
- Total floor area: 3,854㎡
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- 한국천주교주교회의 온라인 주소록
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