Sisters of St. Paul of Chartres

About this place

The Daughters of St. Paul community in Dangu-dong, Wonju, is listed in the Catholic Church directory of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Korea as the congregation’s Wonju branch. The Daughters of St. Paul have a distinctive mission of evangelization through the means of social communication and carry out apostolates through publishing, bookstores, missionary outreach, education, Bible programs, and other forms of communication. The Wonju branch should therefore be understood not as a territorial parish church but as a local religious community and a base for the congregation’s communications apostolate.

Official materials of the congregation emphasize that the Gospel is communicated not only through books and media but also through the sisters’ own lives and relationships. The Wonju community has served the local Church within this Pauline spirituality, grounding its apostolate in prayer and common religious life. Visitors should therefore understand the place primarily as a branch community where the Daughters of St. Paul live their consecrated life and mission of the Word rather than as a regular center of parish liturgy.

For this reason, understanding the Wonju branch requires looking less at the size of its building or whether it functions as a public liturgical center and more at how the congregation communicates the Word and builds relationships within the local Church. The branch community itself is one way in which the congregation’s mission takes root in a particular region.