About this place
Jeungsan mission station is a Catholic mission community of the Diocese of Wonju located at 35-10 Mureung 4-ro, Nam-myeon, Jeongseon County. The Catholic Church directory in Korea lists Jeungsan as a mission station of the Diocese of Wonju, confirming that it is a local Catholic community rather than a separate parish.
A mission station is generally a smaller Catholic community than a parish with a resident priest. Local Catholics gather there for prayer and prepare for Mass and the sacraments when a parish priest visits. Jeungsan therefore has significance as a local base where Catholics in the Nam-myeon area of Jeongseon can maintain community life without having to travel to a distant parish church for every gathering. Reliable public sources do not sufficiently document its present mother parish or detailed current activities, so this account does not speculate about them and limits itself to the verified identity of Jeungsan as a local mission station of the Diocese of Wonju.
History & origins
The Catholic Church directory in Korea records 1961 as the year in which Jeungsan mission station was established. This is the clearest official record showing that by the early 1960s there was a Catholic community in Nam-myeon, Jeongseon, recognized by the Church as a mission station.
Publicly available diocesan and Church-historical sources, however, do not provide a continuous account of which parish first had jurisdiction over the mission, when its church building was constructed or moved, or when later jurisdictional changes occurred. For that reason, differing dates and proposed mother parishes found in unofficial sources have not been adopted. The verifiable history is limited to the 1961 establishment record and the fact that the community continues to be listed as a mission station of the Diocese of Wonju today. Where documentation is this limited, it is more appropriate to supplement the history later when diocesan documents or parish histories become available than to fill the gaps with conjecture.
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- 한국천주교주교회의 온라인 주소록
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Official website: http://www.wjcatholic.or.kr
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