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Apostolic Prefecture Of Shunsen
The Diocese of Chunchon (also romanized ''Chuncheon'' and ''Ch’unch’on'', ) 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 (South Korea), Gangwon-do. Its cathedral episcopal see mother church is Jungnim-dong Cathedral in Chuncheon. History The jurisdiction was erected on April 25, 1939 as a missionary pre-diocesan jurisdiction on territory split off from the Archdiocese of Seoul, Apostolic Vicariate of Seoul under the name Apostolic Prefecture of Chuncheon, Shunsen, the city's name during the period of Korea under Japanese rule, 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. On 22 March 1965, it lost territory to establish the ...
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Gangwon Province (South Korea)
Gangwon Province (), officially Gangwon State (), is a administrative divisions of South Korea, Special Self-Governing Province of South Korea. It is known as the largest and population density, least densely populated subdivision of South Korea. Gangwon is one of the three provinces in South Korea with special self-governing status, the others being Jeju Province and North Jeolla Province, Jeonbuk State. Gangwon is bordered on the east by the Sea of Japan, it borders Gyeonggi Province to the west, North Gyeongsang Province and North Chungcheong Province to the south, and the Military Demarcation Line to the north, separating it from North Korea. In the 1945 division of Korea, the Gangwon Province (pre-1910), historical Gangwon Province was divided in half, and remains so to this day. Pyeongchang County in Gangwon hosted the 2018 Winter Olympics and 2018 Winter Paralympics. Gangwon also hosted the 2024 Winter Youth Olympics. History Gangwon Province was one of the Eight Provinc ...
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Mother Church
Mother church or matrice is a term depicting the Christian Church as a mother in her functions of nourishing and protecting the believer. It may also refer to the primary church of a Christian denomination or diocese, i.e. a cathedral church, or the oldest church of a particular locality. For a particular individual, one's mother church is the church in which one received the sacrament of baptism. The term has specific meanings within different Christian traditions. Catholics refer to the Catholic Church as "Holy Mother Church". Church as an organization Primatial local churches The "first see", or primatial see, of a regional or national church is sometimes referred to as the mother church of that nation. For example, Armagh is the primatial see of Ireland, because it was the first established local church in that country. Similarly, Rome is the primatial see of Italy, and Baltimore of the United States, and so on. The first local church in all of Christianity is that of G ...
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Christian Organizations Established In 1939
A Christian () is a person who follows or adheres to Christianity, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. Christians form the largest religious community in the world. The words ''Christ'' and ''Christian'' derive from the Koine Greek title (), a translation of the Biblical Hebrew term '' mashiach'' () (usually rendered as ''messiah'' in English). While there are diverse interpretations of Christianity which sometimes conflict, they are united in believing that Jesus has a unique significance. The term ''Christian'' used as an adjective is descriptive of anything associated with Christianity or Christian churches, or in a proverbial sense "all that is noble, and good, and Christ-like." According to a 2011 Pew Research Center survey, there were 2.3 billion Christians around the world, up from about 600 million in 1910. Today, about 37% of all Christians live in the Americas, about 26% live in Europe, 24% live in sub-Saharan Africa, ...
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Roman Catholic Dioceses In South Korea
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Kyunghyang Shinmun
The ''Kyunghyang Shinmun'' () is a major daily newspaper published in South Korea. It is based in Seoul. The name literally means '' Urbi et Orbi Daily News''."Who is the ''Kyunghyang Shinmun'' (''Kyunghyang Daily News'')"
''Kyunghyang Shinmun'' website (English). Retrieved 2011-10-06.


History

''Kyunghyang Shinmun'' was founded in 1946 by the Catholic Church, which explains its name. Before the Korean War, it was edited by Fr. Peter Ryang, a refugee from the North, and its circulation was 100,000. ''Kyunghyang Shinmun'' was temporarily closed down in May 1959 by the Rhee administration on grounds of having printed "false editorials", (fee required for fu ...
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John Chang Yik
The Right Reverend John Chang Yik (November 20, 1933, Seoul – August 5, 2020, Chuncheon Chuncheon (; ; literally ''spring river''), formerly romanized as Ch'unch'ŏn, is the capital of Gangwon Province, South Korea. The city lies in the north of the country, located in a basin formed by the Soyang River and Han River (Korea), Han R ...) was the Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Chunchon, South Korea. The son of Chang Myon, he was born as Chang Yik. On 30 March 1963, aged 29, he was ordained a parish priest. On 11 November 1994, aged 61, he was appointed as Bishop of Chuncheon and ordained a month later. His consecrators were: Stephen Cardinal Kim Sou-hwan, Archbishop Victorinus Youn Kong-hi and Nicolas Cardinal Cheong Jin-suk. He was appointed Apostolic Administrator of Hamhung in North Korea in 2006; he retired from both posts in 2010. References External links Biodata at Catholic Hierarchy website 1933 births 2020 deaths 20th-century Roman Catho ...
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Thomas Stewart (Roman Catholic Bishop)
Thomas Stewart (1925-30 October 1994) was an Irish Columban priest, who served as Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Chunchon in South Korea from 1966 until 1994. Stewart was born in 1925 in Woodford, County Galway, Ireland. He was ordained a priest in 1950 for the Missionary Society of St. Columban, and went to South Korea in 1954. He served as Vicar General in the Chunchon Diocese before being elevated in 1966 to Bishop. For health reasons, Stewart retired in May 1994. He died a few months later in Ireland of a heart attack A myocardial infarction (MI), commonly known as a heart attack, occurs when Ischemia, blood flow decreases or stops in one of the coronary arteries of the heart, causing infarction (tissue death) to the heart muscle. The most common symptom .... References 1925 births 1994 deaths Irish expatriate Roman Catholic bishops Missionary Society of St. Columban Christian clergy from County Galway People educated at Garbally College 20th ...
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Apostolic Administrator
An apostolic administration in the Catholic Church is administrated by a prelate appointed by the pope to serve as the ordinary for a specific area. Either the area is not yet a diocese (a stable 'pre-diocesan', usually missionary apostolic administration), or is a diocese, archdiocese, eparchy or similar permanent ordinariate (such as a territorial prelature or a territorial abbacy) that either has no bishop or archbishop (an apostolic administrator '' sede vacante'', as after an episcopal death, resignation or transfer to another diocese) or, in very rare cases, has an incapacitated bishop (apostolic administrator ''sede plena''). The title also applies to an outgoing bishop while awaiting for the date of assuming his new position. Characteristics Apostolic administrators of stable administrations are equivalent in canon law with diocesan bishops and archbishops, meaning they have essentially the same authority as a diocesan bishop and archbishop. This type of apostolic ...
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Paul Noh Gi-nam
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Thomas F
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Owen McPolin
Rev. Owen McPolin((임 오엔)) SSC. MA, STL, (1889–1963) was an Irish priest who served on missions to China and Korea. Biography Born in Hilltown, County Down, Ireland, in 1889, McPolin, went to Maynooth College where he was ordained in 1913 for the Diocese of Dromore, and became a professor at the Maynooth, in 1919 he joined the Maynooth Mission to China (which became the Columban fathers), and with the founders of the Society Fr. John Blowick and Fr. Edward Galvin, was part of the first mission to China, arriving on the Yawata Maru, Shanghai, in June 1920, and Fr Polin was to serve in China for six years. McPolin was the leader of the first Columban mission to Korea in 1933. Monsignor McPolin served as the Apostolic Prefect in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Gwangju from 1937 until 1943, he also served as the first Apostolic Administrator of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Chunchon, Korea, from 1939 until 1941. He was placed under house arrest by the Japanese during ...
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Roman Catholic Diocese Of Wonju
The Catholic Diocese of Wonju () is a diocese of the Latin Church of the Catholic Church in located in Wonju, South Korea. It is a suffragan to the Archdiocese of Seoul. History On 22 March 1965, Pope Paul VI established the Diocese of Wonju. Churches in Hoengseong, Pyeongchang, Jecheon and Danyang was transferred to Diocese of Wonju on 1 May 1969. The diocese lost territory later that year when the Diocese of Andong was established on 29 May 1969. The diocese acquired a 40 percent share of Wonju Munwha Broadcasting Corporation in 1970. Leadership Ordinaries * Daniel Tji Hak-soun (1965–1993) * James Kim Ji-seok (1993–2016) * Basil Cho Kyu-man (2016–present) Coadjutor Bishops *James Kim Ji-seok (1990–1993) Notes Wonju Christian organizations established in 1965 Wonju Wonju (; ) is the most populous Administrative divisions of South Korea, city in Gangwon Province, South Korea, with a population of 364,860 as of 2023. The city is located approximately east ...
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