About this place
The Pyeongchang-dong community of the Sisters of Christian Education is a formation and novitiate house at 1 Pyeongchang 17-gil in Jongno-gu, Seoul. The Catholic Church Directory specifically registers this location as the congregation's novitiate, where candidates and novices receive formation through prayer, community life, spiritual guidance, and apostolic education.
The congregation serves through education, catechesis, parish ministry, and social outreach with the mission of forming Christ in persons through education. The Pyeongchang house is therefore primarily a place for forming new religious sisters, not an ordinary parish or independent church.
History & origins
The roots of the Sisters of Christian Education lie in the educational mission begun by Fr. Jean Vatelot for poor girls in the Lorraine region of France in the early eighteenth century. The Catholic Church Directory gives 1720 as the congregation's foundation year, while the congregation's official history describes the opening of a school in Bruley in 1722 as an important step in making that mission concrete.
The community later developed through Church recognition and reorganization into a religious congregation devoted to education and entered Korea on September 17, 1966. A novitiate now operates in Pyeongchang-dong, but its exact local opening date is not publicly documented. The French origins of 1720–1722 and the 1966 Korean arrival are therefore not treated as the foundation date of this particular novitiate.
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Building information
- Passenger elevators: 0
- 2 above-ground floors · 1 below-ground floors
- Approved for use in 1977
- Total floor area: 454㎡
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- 한국천주교주교회의 온라인 주소록
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