자인성당

History & origins

According to the official records of the Archdiocese of Daegu, Jain Parish was established on October 28, 1972. From that point, the Catholic community of the Jain area was formally situated within the archdiocesan pastoral structure as an independent parish, providing a stable framework for parish life in the southeastern rural part of Gyeongsan.

On October 24, 2021, marking the 49th anniversary of the parish's establishment, Bishop John Bosco Chang Shin-ho presided over a Mass of thanksgiving. The archdiocesan record explicitly calls the occasion the “49th anniversary of the establishment of the parish,” independently confirming the 1972 chronology. After nearly half a century, the community's thanksgiving liturgy offered an occasion to look back on the life of faith built up since its foundation and to carry it forward to another generation.

The two milestones—from the parish's establishment in 1972 to the 49th-anniversary Mass of thanksgiving in 2021—show that Jain Parish has continued for nearly half a century as an independent local Catholic community. Generations and patterns of daily life changed over those decades, but the tradition of remembering the foundation and gathering as a community to give thanks has remained an important way of connecting the parish's history with its present life of faith.