About this place
The Jinju community of the Contemplative Missionary Fraternity is listed in the Directory of the Catholic Church in Korea as the congregation’s Korean headquarters and as a community of women in consecrated life. Although it is located within the Diocese of Masan, it is not a territorial parish; its defining identity is that of a central house linking the congregation’s communities and life in Korea.
As its official name indicates, the community belongs to a religious tradition that brings contemplation and mission together. Its status as the Korean headquarters means that it is more than a residence or an attached chapel: it is a central place connecting the common life, prayer, and organizational life of the congregation’s members in Korea. Visitors should therefore understand it not as an ordinary parish church, but as the congregation’s principal house in Korea where the sisters live their consecrated life and spiritual mission.
History & origins
The Directory of the Catholic Church in Korea records October 7, 1951 as the foundation date of the Contemplative Missionary Fraternity. This provides an official point of reference for the beginning of the community, and the history of the present Korean headquarters in Jinju can be understood first in relation to this origin of the congregation itself.
The congregation entered Korea on December 17, 1963. That date marks the beginning of its contemplative-missionary religious life within the Korean Church and provides the historical starting point for the communities later formed in Korea. This research, however, did not find sufficiently authoritative documentation identifying the address of the first Korean house or the date on which the headquarters moved to its present location in Sangpyeong-dong, Jinju.
Today, the Directory of the Catholic Church in Korea clearly identifies the Jinju community as the congregation’s Korean headquarters. The verified historical sequence can therefore be summarized as the congregation’s foundation in 1951, its arrival in Korea in 1963, and its present stage with the Korean headquarters located in Jinju. Intermediate details such as relocations or building history have not been inferred where evidence was lacking.
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