About this place
Bibong Mission Station belongs to Gosan Parish of the Catholic Diocese of Jeonju and serves as a local pastoral center connecting Catholics in Bibong-myeon, Wanju County, with their parish. The current diocesan directory lists Bibong as one of several mission stations under Gosan Parish. Because Gosan Parish serves a broad northern part of Wanju with multiple rural districts and mission communities, Bibong is important in helping Catholics who live at a distance from the parish church maintain a local connection to parish life.
The mission station is not an independent parish but a village community within the pastoral jurisdiction of Gosan Parish. Even on a small scale, its existence reflects a Catholic pastoral structure adapted to the distances and living patterns of a rural region. Through this network, Bibong helps local Catholics remain connected with their parish while preserving the faith identity of a village community over time.
History & origins
The Korean Catholic directory records November 1976 as the time when Bibong Mission Station was established. At that time Gosan Parish served a broad rural area in northern Wanju through a network of village mission stations. The creation of a separate mission community in Bibong-myeon provided a local point of connection between Catholics in the area and their parish. Public sources do not provide sufficient detail about the exact form of the first building or the individuals who led the foundation.
Since its establishment, Bibong has continued as a mission station under Gosan Parish. Both the Korean Catholic Encyclopedia entry on Gosan Parish and the current diocesan mission-station directory place Bibong within Gosan's network, confirming the continuity of this pastoral affiliation.
The historical significance of Bibong lies in its character as a late-twentieth-century rural mission station created and maintained for Catholics who lived too far from the parish church for easy access. Rather than a history marked by major construction events or elevation to parish status, its story is one of a small local community sustaining Catholic life for decades within the pastoral structure of its parish.
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Building information
- Passenger elevators: 0
- 1 above-ground floors · 0 below-ground floors
- Approved for use in 2017
- Total floor area: 55㎡
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- 한국천주교주교회의 온라인 주소록
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