Sam-am-ri Mission Station

About this place

Samam-ri Mission Station is a local Catholic community listed in the Catholic Directory of Korea as a mission station of the Diocese of Suwon. In the current directory, its representative address and contact information point not to a separately identified mission-station building but to Yangseong Catholic Church in Yangseong-myeon, Anseong. It is therefore safest to understand the present community as a mission station administered in close connection with Yangseong Parish.

In Catholic usage, a mission station is a local community for Catholics who live some distance from the parish church, allowing them to maintain communal prayer, catechesis, and liturgical life as circumstances permit. The name Samam-ri preserves the memory of a Catholic community formed within the rural Yangseong area, while the present use of the parish church’s representative information shows that the practical mode of operating a mission station can change over time.

Visitors should therefore not assume from the present listing alone that a separate permanent mission-station building continues to operate in Samam-ri. The key point is that the name of the Samam-ri Catholic community remains in the Diocese of Suwon’s mission-station directory, while its current pastoral and contact structure is connected with Yangseong Parish.