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About this place
Daedong Catholic Church is a parish in the eastern Daejeon district of the Diocese of Daejeon. The Directory of the Catholic Church in Korea records Our Lady of Lourdes as its patron and lists no separate mission stations, indicating a parish in which Catholics of Daedong and the surrounding area gather within one parish community. Located in an established residential area of Daejeon’s Dong-gu, the church serves as a local center of Catholic life centered on Mass and the sacraments.
The parish has continued its community life in the same area over many decades, maintaining a center of faith amid generational changes in the city. Because it remains listed as a distinct parish in the official directory and maintains its own parish website, visitors can understand it not merely as a historic building but as a living church where liturgy and parish community life continue today. Information that changes frequently, such as Mass times and current clergy assignments, is intentionally omitted.
History & origins
Daedong Parish was established on September 22, 1966. The Directory of the Catholic Church in Korea records this as its official foundation date, after which the community took its place as an independent parish in eastern Daejeon. The accessible official online sources do not provide enough detail to reconstruct the earliest separation process or the exact construction history of the first church building, so those matters are not supplemented by inference here.
In 2016, the parish marked its fiftieth anniversary with a series of events reflecting on half a century of parish life. According to a parish report posted by the Diocese of Daejeon, the year included a Mass and lecture by Bishop Lazarus You Heung-sik, a pilgrimage for parishioners, invited lectures, and a retreat in June, followed by an outdoor Mass and a community fellowship event in October. These were prepared not simply as commemorations but as occasions to review the parish’s past and renew the faith of the community.
The fact that the official Catholic directory continues to list Daedong as a distinct parish shows the continuity of the community that began in 1966. The reliably documented historical anchors are the parish’s foundation and its fiftieth-anniversary remembrance; unsupported dates for church construction or later expansions have therefore been left out.
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Dae-dong Catholic Church: history and architecture
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Building information
- Passenger elevators: 1
- 3 above-ground floors · 1 below-ground floors
- Approved for use in 2019
- Total floor area: 2,156㎡
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Daejeon Diocese (Diocese of Daejeon)
Official website: http://www.djcatholic.or.kr
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