About this place
은포리 공소 is a mission station of the Catholic Diocese of Daejeon and is currently under the care of Daecheon Parish, linking the Catholic community in Jugyo-myeon, Boryeong, with its mother parish. The directory of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Korea lists it separately as a mission station and explicitly names Daecheon as its parent parish. It is therefore best understood not as an independent parish but as a local center through which Catholics living at some distance from the parish church maintain communal faith life.
The entry for Daecheon Parish in the Korean Catholic Encyclopedia also lists Eunpo among its mission stations. This confirms that 은포리 공소 has developed and continued within the pastoral network of the Boryeong area. For visitors, its significance lies less in functioning as a permanent parish center and more in connecting a local Catholic community with the sacramental and pastoral life of its parish.
History & origins
The precise founding year and earliest development of 은포리 공소 are not specified in the reliable public sources located for this review. The Korean Catholic Encyclopedia does, however, list Eunpo among the mission stations of Daecheon Parish, confirming that the community formed part of the parish’s pastoral network in the Boryeong area.
The clearest place-specific milestone is the completion of the Eunpori mission-station hall in November 1994. It was built during a period when Daecheon Parish was improving facilities at several mission stations. Providing a hall at Eunpori gave local Catholics a stable place to gather for prayer, catechesis, and their continuing connection with parish life.
The directory of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Korea still lists 은포리 공소 under Daecheon Parish. Rather than assigning an unverified earlier founding date, its history is best understood through the documented 1994 completion of the hall and the continuity of its relationship with the mother parish.
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- 한국천주교주교회의 온라인 주소록
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