Martyrs' Missionary Sisters

About this place

The Missionary Sisters of the Holy Martyrs are listed in the Catholic Church in Korea directory as a women’s institute of consecrated life affiliated with the Diocese of Wonju. The official English name is Missionary Sisters of the Holy Martyrs, and the representative address recorded in the directory is near the bishop’s residence and cathedral in the Tlapa area of Guerrero, Mexico. It is therefore more accurate to understand this site as a representative community base of the religious institute rather than as an ordinary territorial parish church.

The same Catholic directory lists a separate “Korea Gwirae Community” in Gwirae-myeon, Wonju. The representative address in Mexico and the Korean branch thus belong to the same institute but are distinct community locations. This site is not identified as a territorial parish with pastoral jurisdiction over local Catholics; it is listed as a representative address of the religious institute and should therefore be distinguished from an ordinary parish church.