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Cheonan Wonseong-dong Catholic Church is a parish of the Cheonan Eastern District in the Catholic Diocese of Daejeon and serves the Catholic community centered on Wonseong-dong and the eastern part of the city. The official Catholic directory lists St. Andrew Kim Taegon as the parish patron. With Korea's first Catholic priest as its patron, the parish is a place where the faithful celebrate Mass and the sacraments while keeping the Korean Church's heritage of martyrdom and priestly vocation present in everyday parish life.
The parish's role also extends beyond liturgy inside the church. In a 2026 community report published by the Diocese of Daejeon, Wonseong-dong Parish took part in a diocesan Caritas sharing project and delivered food to twenty-two households, including a migrant-background family, without distinction of nationality or religion. The episode illustrates how the parish connects Catholic faith with practical care for neighbors in the local community.
History & origins
Cheonan Wonseong-dong Parish was established on August 18, 1986. The official Catholic directory records this date as the parish's foundation and identifies it today as a parish of the Cheonan Eastern District in the Diocese of Daejeon. Public official sources do not provide enough detail to establish the mother parish from which it was separated or the full circumstances of its foundation, so the verified establishment date is the clearest starting point for the parish's history.
From the First Sunday of Advent in 2020 until the eve of the First Sunday of Advent in 2021, the Diocese of Daejeon observed the bicentennial jubilee of the birth of St. Andrew Kim Taegon and designated Wonseong-dong Church as one of the diocesan churches where the jubilee indulgence could be obtained. The designation made the parish a place of diocesan pilgrimage and prayer and is a documented example of its spiritual identity taking part in a wider diocesan commemoration.
For decades after its establishment, the parish has continued as a local Catholic community in eastern Cheonan. Because public official sources for its detailed architectural chronology and the circumstances of its earliest parish division are limited, those gaps have not been filled by inference. The verified milestones of establishment and jubilee designation show a community that has maintained its local faith life while remaining connected with the wider prayer and pilgrimage of the diocese.
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Cheonan Wonseong-dong Church: history and architecture
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Building information
- Passenger elevators: 0
- 3 above-ground floors · 1 below-ground floors
- Approved for use in 1994
- Total floor area: 2,490㎡
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