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Cheonggye Market Catholic Church is a quasi-parish of the Archdiocese of Seoul in the 4th Jongno District of the central Seoul pastoral region, with St. Francis of Assisi as its patron saint. Its location inside the Tongil Shopping Center gives it a character different from a typical residential parish.
It is closely connected with the faith life of merchants and Catholics who live and work in the market districts around Cheonggyecheon and Dongdaemun, giving it a clear market-ministry identity. Its importance lies less in size or architectural monumentality than in being a Catholic community embedded in an everyday workplace. Visitors should therefore understand it as a distinctive market-based faith community located within a commercial building rather than as a large freestanding parish church.
History & origins
The roots of the Cheonggye Market Catholic community are traced to a prayer group called Hanmaeumhoe, formed in 1989 in Pyeonghwa Market in Euljiro 6-ga. The group came under Sindang-dong Parish in November 1992 and, in 1994, was placed under the Pyeonghwa Market quasi-parish together with the Dongdaemun General Market community.
In October 2001, the community was elevated as Cheonggye-Pyeonghwa Market Quasi-Parish, bringing together Catholics of the Cheonggye mission at Pyeonghwa Market, the Dongdaemun General Market, and nearby shopping centers. The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Korea directory records October 5, 2001 as its official foundation date.
In January 2005, its name was changed to the present Cheonggye Market Quasi-Parish. Because the detailed early chronology is preserved here through a secondary source that re-cites material from the Seoul diocesan bulletin, it has been used cautiously alongside the official directory.
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