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About this place
Bukpyeong Mission Station is a Catholic mission community in Bukpyeong-myeon, Jeongseon County, belonging to the Diocese of Wonju. It is currently registered in the official mission-station directory of the Korean Catholic Church and serves as a small local community through which Catholics in Bukpyeong-myeon remain connected with parish pastoral care, common prayer, and liturgical life. Its basic character is that of a mission station rather than an independent parish with a resident priest.
The name can easily be confused with Bukpyeong Catholic Church in Donghae, but the two are separate places. The mission station in this entry is located in Bukpyeong-myeon, Jeongseon County, whereas Bukpyeong Parish is an independent parish in Donghae. This geographical distinction is important for visitors. The significance of the mission station lies less in scale or architectural status than in sustaining Catholic relationships and prayer within a mountainous local community. Changeable details such as current Mass schedules or operating arrangements are not included unless supported by official sources. Checking both the administrative location of Bukpyeong-myeon in Jeongseon and its ecclesial status as a mission station makes it possible to distinguish it from the place of the same name and understand the community accurately.
History & origins
The Guide to the Catholic Church in Korea records May 25, 1969, as the establishment date of Bukpyeong Mission Station in Jeongseon. This confirms that by the late 1960s a distinct mission community for Catholics in Bukpyeong-myeon had been formally established within the Diocese of Wonju. The same official listing also confirms the present name and location, allowing the current mission station to be identified with the community described in that record.
Public official sources do not provide a continuous detailed chronology showing which parish first supervised the mission, how its first building was obtained, or when later changes of building or jurisdiction occurred. It is therefore important not to fill those gaps with the history of other places named Bukpyeong, especially Bukpyeong Parish in Donghae. The two places share a name but have different locations and identities.
Within the evidence available, the history of Bukpyeong Mission Station can be summarized around its recorded establishment in 1969 and its continuing existence as a mission community today. Rather than inventing a long chronology, the safest emphasis is the continuity of a local Catholic community in Bukpyeong-myeon, Jeongseon. More detail on jurisdictional or building changes should be added only if further official records become available.
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Building information
- Passenger elevators: 0
- 1 above-ground floors · 0 below-ground floors
- Approved for use in 1987
- Total floor area: 116㎡
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- 한국천주교주교회의 온라인 주소록
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Wontong Diocese (Diocese of Wonju)
Official website: http://www.wjcatholic.or.kr
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