Dumujin Mission

History & origins

The network of Catholic mission stations on Baengnyeongdo expanded notably during the 1960s. According to a Catholic press field report on the island's church history, several mission stations were established around 1960 under the energetic pastoral ministry of the first parish priest, and Dumujin is among those that remain today. Because the available public sources do not provide a separate exact founding date for Dumujin itself, it is safer to understand the community within this broader expansion of mission stations in the 1960s rather than assign it an unsupported date.

The mission stations of Baengnyeongdo preserve the history of Catholics living at some distance from their parish church gathering in their own villages for prayer and faith. Dumujin likewise retains the form of a modest village religious space rather than a monumental church building. A field report notes its house-like exterior with a cross and a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a form that reflects how island mission stations closely joined ordinary living space with communal Catholic practice.

Today the Guide to the Catholic Church in Korea identifies Dumujin as a mission station under Baengnyeongdo Parish. Its history is therefore best understood not as that of an independent parish but as part of the continuing network of village communities formed across Baengnyeongdo from the 1960s onward and sustained in connection with the parish. Reliable public sources located for this review do not establish the exact construction date or later relocation history, so those details are not added here.