About this place
Gidong Mission Station is a Catholic mission community in Cheonggye-myeon, Muan County, belonging to the Archdiocese of Gwangju and under the pastoral care of Cheonggye Parish. The Catholic Church Directory in Korea confirms the same address as the package and records its establishment on March 5, 1952.
A Korean Catholic gongso, or mission station, is a local faith community smaller than an independent parish, where Catholics gather for prayer and continue their religious life under the care of a mother parish. Gidong serves as a local point of connection for Catholics in Cheonggye-myeon who live away from the parish center.
Its continuity since the 1950s reflects the long persistence of a small rural Catholic community. The place is therefore best understood not as an independent parish church with a resident priest, but as a prayer place and local community linking Catholics with Cheonggye Parish.
History & origins
Gidong Mission Station is officially recorded as having been established on March 5, 1952. The Catholic Church Directory in Korea registers Gidong at its present address in Cheonggye-myeon, Muan County, as a mission station of the Archdiocese of Gwangju and identifies Cheonggye Parish as its mother parish.
What can be established from this record is that a formal mission community was in place in Gidong in 1952 and has since remained within the pastoral structure of Cheonggye Parish. The publicly available records of the bishops’ conference and the archdiocese, however, do not explain in detail the immediate circumstances of its establishment, the size of the early Catholic community, or the construction and relocation history of its worship space.
The history of Gidong Mission Station is therefore best presented around the verified establishment year and its relationship with the mother parish. A fuller chronology can be added if further documentation is found in local parish histories or archdiocesan archives.
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Building information
- Passenger elevators: 0
- 1 above-ground floors · 0 below-ground floors
- Approved for use in 1982
- Total floor area: 182㎡
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- 한국천주교주교회의 온라인 주소록
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Gwangju Archdiocese (Archdiocese of Gwangju)
Official website: https://www.gjcatholic.or.kr/
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