About this place
The Gwangju community of the Sisters of Notre Dame is a women’s religious community located at Notre Dame Brothers’ Home in Bongseon-dong, Nam-gu, Gwangju. The Catholic Church Directory in Korea lists this location as the representative address of the Sisters’ Gwangju house, while the congregation’s official website also identifies Notre Dame Brothers’ Home at the same address as one of its related institutions. The site is therefore best understood not as an ordinary parish church, but as a place where religious community life and apostolic ministry are carried out together.
The Sisters of Notre Dame identify social welfare as one of their principal apostolates, and Notre Dame Brothers’ Home in Gwangju has operated as a residential child-care institution. The Catholic identity of the place is expressed less through an independent parish community than through the union of the Sisters’ religious life and their apostolate of care. Access or participation in liturgy should therefore not be assumed to follow the pattern of an ordinary parish church, but should be checked according to guidance from the institution and the congregation.
History & origins
The exact date on which the Gwangju house of the Sisters of Notre Dame was established does not appear in the official sources verified for this review, so no date has been inferred. The history that can be traced with confidence at this location is centered on the buildings and operation of Notre Dame Brothers’ Home, the residential child-care institution connected with the congregation.
The Catholic Times records that the former main building of Notre Dame Brothers’ Home was constructed in 1986. It served for more than thirty years as living space for the child-care institution, but eventually became old enough to require substantial improvement. This record confirms that by the mid-1980s the site already had a physical facility supporting the congregation’s apostolate of care.
On January 28, 2019, a completion ceremony was held after the aging main building had been rebuilt and renovated, and a Mass of thanksgiving for the new construction was celebrated with the auxiliary leadership of the Archdiocese of Gwangju present. The new facility was intended to provide children with a safer and more comfortable living environment. The verifiable history of the place is therefore more accurately described as the continuing renewal of facilities supporting a long-running religious and social-welfare apostolate rather than as the foundation history of a parish.
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