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History & origins

The establishment of Hongeun-dong Parish grew out of plans to divide the increasingly large Hongje-dong Parish. In the early 2000s Hongje began preparing new parishes for the Hongje 4-dong and Hongeun areas, and in December 2003 it purchased a 249-pyeong site for the future Hongeun church.

On February 19, 2004, Hongeun-dong Parish was formally separated from Hongje-dong. Hongje Parish’s official chronology records that the new parish began around 25-1 Hongeun-dong, with 859 households and 2,405 Catholics transferred to it, covering Hongeun 1-dong, Hongeun 2-dong, and part of Hongje 3-dong. The current Catholic directory records the same date as the parish’s establishment.

The birth of Hongeun-dong, together with the separation of Hongje 4-dong Parish in the same period, reorganized the large Hongje pastoral territory into more local communities. Hongeun-dong has since developed as an independent parish under the patronage of the Holy Family.