About this place
The Daegu Community of the Daughters of St. Paul is the local community of the Daughters of St. Paul in Daegu and is officially listed by the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Korea as a religious community within the Archdiocese of Daegu. Its official English name is Daughters of St. Paul, and it is one of the women's religious institutes of the Pauline Family founded by Blessed James Alberione.
The institute's particular mission is to proclaim the Gospel through the means of social communication. Its official materials identify publishing and editing, bookstores, missionary education, social media, and various forms of content ministry as major apostolates. The Daegu community carries this charism within the local Church and is therefore a place where traditional consecrated life meets evangelization through contemporary media.
History & origins
The Daughters of St. Paul began on June 15, 1915, in Alba, Italy. Founder Blessed James Alberione believed that the new means of communication of the modern age should be used for evangelization, and Sister Tecla Merlo helped shape and lead the early community. The institute grew with a mission that embraced not only publishing but also emerging media as instruments for proclaiming the Gospel.
The sisters entered Korea on December 13, 1960, in the Archdiocese of Seoul. In the following year they opened their first St. Paul bookstore in Chungmuro and began home visitation and publishing apostolates, gradually expanding their work in step with Korea's changing communications environment.
The institute's official Korean chronology records its entry into the Archdiocese of Daegu in 1972. This shows that the present Daegu community stands in a local history extending for more than half a century rather than being merely a recent administrative presence. The sisters later broadened their apostolate through biblical ministry, audiovisual catechetical materials, an online bookstore, and digital content.
Public official sources do not provide a detailed chronology of every relocation or building used by the Daegu community. The larger historical line, however, is clear: the foundation of the institute, its arrival in Korea, and its entry into Daegu in 1972. The present community continues within that history to carry out the Pauline mission of evangelization through media, publishing, and education in the local Church.
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Building information
- Passenger elevators: 1
- 6 above-ground floors · 1 below-ground floors
- Approved for use in 1981
- Total floor area: 1,157㎡
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- 한국천주교주교회의 온라인 주소록
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