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Sangri Catholic Church is a parish of the Diocese of Uijeongbu at 19-1 Sangri-ro 34beon-gil in Yeoncheon-eup, Yeoncheon County. According to the parish's official material, it developed from Sinmang-ri Mission Station, which was rebuilt at the present location before being elevated to parish status on September 4, 2003.
It serves a small rural and border-region Catholic community in northern Yeoncheon. Today the parish provides Mass and the sacraments in Sangri while also caring for Daegwang-ri Mission Station. Its present significance lies in linking the parish center with Catholics scattered across a wide rural area through a combined parish-and-mission pastoral structure.
History & origins
Sangri Parish grew from Sinmang-ri Mission Station, a Catholic community in an area developed as a resettlement settlement after the Korean War. The official parish history records that the Sinmang-ri mission chapel, then under Dongducheon Parish, was completed in 1971 and blessed by Cardinal Stephen Kim Sou-hwan. The mission later passed through the jurisdiction of Jeongok and Yeoncheon parishes.
During the Yeoncheon Parish period, problems with the older mission property led to construction of a new chapel at the present location. On September 4, 2003, Sinmang-ri Mission Station was elevated to Sangri Parish, and Daegwang-ri Mission Station was transferred to its care. The first pastor, Fr. John the Baptist Kwon Hyeok-dong, arrived later that month. The core of Sangri's history is its development from a mission under several parent parishes into an independent parish in northern Gyeonggi.
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Sangri Catholic Church: history and architecture
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Building information
- Passenger elevators: 0
- 1 above-ground floors · 0 below-ground floors
- Approved for use in 2002
- Total floor area: 376㎡
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