About this place
Gwayeok Mission Station is a Catholic mission community in Gwayeok-myeon, Goheung County, in the south-central area of the Archdiocese of Gwangju, and belongs to Goheung Parish. The archdiocese's official record gives January 1, 1965 as its establishment date and confirms the same address as the package, with Gwayeok-myeon as its pastoral area.
Rather than being an independent parish, Gwayeok is a local faith community where Catholics gather for prayer and continue their religious life under the pastoral care of Goheung Parish. Its continuity since the 1960s shows how Catholic community life has been sustained for decades in a township located away from the parish center.
The site is therefore best understood not as a parish church with a resident priest, but as a mission station connecting local Catholics with Goheung Parish. It bears witness to the long continuity of a small Catholic community in this part of Goheung County.
History & origins
Gwayeok Mission Station was formed as a Catholic mission community in the Goheung area in the mid-1960s. The current Archdiocese of Gwangju record gives January 1, 1965 as its establishment date and confirms the continuity of the community in Gwayeok-myeon.
Gwayeok was initially under the pastoral jurisdiction of Beolgyo Parish. The Korean Catholic Encyclopedia records that when the Goheung mission was elevated to an independent parish in 1971, Gwayeok Mission Station was transferred to the newly established Goheung Parish. It has since continued as a local community belonging to Goheung Parish.
Public sources do not provide a detailed later chronology of rebuilding or relocation. The history of the place is therefore best summarized through the two verifiable milestones: its establishment in the mid-1960s and its transfer to Goheung Parish in 1971.
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