Roman Catholic Diocese of Chuncheon
Roman Catholic archdiocese in Korea From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Diocese of Chunchon (also romanized Chuncheon and Ch’unch’on, Latin: Dioecesis Chuncheonensis) is a diocese of the Latin Church of the Roman Catholic Church in South Korea. A suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Seoul, it has ecclesiastic authority over the administrative province of Gangwon-do.
Diocese of Chuncheon Dioecesis Chuncheonensis 춘천교구 | |
|---|---|
| Location | |
| Country |  South Koreapartly in  North Korea |
| Territory | Northern part of Gangwon |
| Ecclesiastical province | Seoul |
| Metropolitan | Seoul |
| Statistics | |
| Area | 12,016 km2 (4,639 sq mi) |
| Population - Total - Catholics | (as of 2017) 1,139,033 89,446 (7.9%) |
| Parishes | 61 |
| Information | |
| Denomination | Catholic |
| Sui iuris church | Latin Church |
| Rite | Roman Rite |
| Established | 25 April 1939 (85 years ago) |
| Cathedral | Cathedral of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Chuncheon |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Francis |
| Bishop | Simon Kim Ju-young |
| Metropolitan Archbishop | Andrew Yeom Soo-jung |
| Bishops emeritus | Lucas Kim Woon-hoe |
| Map | |
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| Website | |
| cccatholic.or.kr | |
Its cathedral episcopal see mother church is Jungnim-dong Cathedral in Chuncheon.
The jurisdiction was erected on April 25, 1939 as a missionary pre-diocesan jurisdiction on territory split off from the Apostolic Vicariate of Seoul under the name Apostolic Prefecture of Shunsen, the city's name during the period of Japanese rule of Korea.
It was renamed the Apostolic Prefecture of Chunchon on July 16, 1950 and made an Apostolic vicariate on September 20, 1955.
It was elevated to diocesan status on March 10, 1962.[1][2]
On 22 March 1965, it lost territory to establish the Diocese of Wonju 원주
Apostolic Prefects of Chunchon
- Owen McPolin (1939–1940)
- Thomas F. Quinlan, S.S.C.M.E. (1940–1942)
- Paul Noh Gi-nam (1942–1945; apostolic administrator)
- Thomas F. Quinlan, S.S.C.M.E. (1945–1955)
Apostolic Vicars of Chunchon
- Thomas F. Quinlan, S.S.C.M.E. (1955–1962)
Bishops of Chunchon
- Thomas F. Quinlan, S.S.C.M.E. (1962–1965)
- Thomas Stewart, S.S.C.M.E. (1966–1994)
- John Chang Yik (1994–2010)
- Lucas Kim Woon-hoe (2010–2020)[3]
- Simon Kim Ju-young (2020–present)[4]
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