About this place
Saengbiryang Mission Station is a Catholic mission station in Saengbiryang-myeon, Sancheong-gun, Gyeongsangnam-do, belonging to Sancheong Parish in the Diocese of Masan. The Catholic Directory of Korea continues to list Saengbiryang as a mission station of the diocese, while diocesan statistics place it among the mission stations under Sancheong Parish. It serves as a local center that helps Catholics in a rural area some distance from the parish church continue their life of faith close to home.
It is best understood not as an independent parish but as a local Catholic community connected to its parish. Within Sancheong’s broad pastoral territory, Saengbiryang Mission Station is a place where Catholics of Saengbiryang-myeon can pray together, maintain community ties, and remain connected with the parish. In the long history of Sancheong Parish and its network of outlying mission stations, it has particular meaning as a small center that sustains Catholic life in a mountainous and rural setting.
History & origins
The exact date of the first establishment of Saengbiryang Mission Station is not given in the publicly available official sources, but it is clear that a mission-station community had already formed during Catholic missionary activity in the Sancheong area in the 1960s. A history of Franciscan missionary work in Gyeongsangnam-do published by the Diocese of Masan records that several mission stations, including Saengbiryang, were established as Catholic outreach in the Sancheong area expanded.
The official history of Sancheong Parish also lists Saengbiryang among the thirteen mission stations placed under the new parish when Sancheong was elevated to parish status on December 20, 1965. This shows that, by the time the parish was created, a distinct Catholic community already existed in Saengbiryang and was incorporated into the new parish structure. Sancheong Parish began with a pastoral system designed to serve mission stations scattered across a wide rural county.
Saengbiryang has continued within that network of mission stations. Recent diocesan statistics still record it under Sancheong Parish, showing continuity from the community documented in the 1960s to the present local center of faith. Earlier details, such as the precise date of the first gathering or construction of the first mission-station building, have not been stated because no sufficiently reliable official source was found for them.
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- 1 above-ground floors · 0 below-ground floors
- Total floor area: 62㎡
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- 한국천주교주교회의 온라인 주소록
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