The Archdiocese of Daegu (previously known as Taiku or Taegu) is a

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of the

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of the

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. The Archbishop of Daegu, whose

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is at Kyesan Cathedral in

Daegu Daegu (; ), formerly spelled Taegu and officially Daegu Metropolitan City (), is a city in southeastern South Korea. It is the third-largest urban agglomeration in South Korea after Seoul and Busan; the fourth-largest List of provincial-level ci ...

, is

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for the Dioceses of

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, and

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. It is the second oldest

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, erected as an

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on April 8, 1911, from the Apostolic Vicariate of Korea. It was elevated to archdiocesan status on March 10, 1962.

Leadership

Ordinaries

Apostolic Vicars of Taiku

* Florian-Jean-Baptiste Démange (1911–1938) * Jean-Germain Mousset, M.E.P. (1938–1942) * Ireneus Hayasaka Kyubei (1942–1946) * Paul Chu Jae-yong (1946–1948) *

Paul Roh Ki-nam Paul Marie Kinam Roh (22 January 1902 – 25 June 1984) was a Korean Catholic bishop who served as Apostolic Vicar of Seoul from 1940–1962 and Archbishop of Seoul from 1962–1967. He was noted as pro-American and anti-Communist in the Syngman R ...

(1948;

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) * John Baptist Choi Deok-hong (1948–1954) * John Baptist Sye Bong-kil (1955–1962)

Archbishops of Daegu

*John Baptist Sye Bong-kil (1962–1986) *

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(1986–2007) *

John Choi Young-su John Choi Young-su (; March 2, 1942 – August 31, 2009) was the South Korean archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Daegu from 2007 to 2009. Young-su was ordained a Catholic priest on November 6, 1970, and was elevated to auxiliary bish ...

(2007–2009) * Thaddeus Cho Hwan-Kil (2010–present)

Coadjutor Bishops

*Paul Ri Moun-hi (1985–1986) *John Choi Young-su (2006–2007)

Auxiliary Bishops

*Paul Ri Moun-hi (1972–1985) *

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(1994–2001) *John Choi Young-su (2000–2006) *Thaddeus Cho Hwan-gil (2007–2010) * John Bosco Chang Shin-ho (2016–present)Catholic Hierarchy: "Bishop John Bosco Chang Shin-Ho"
retrieved September 3, 2020

References

External links

Daegu Catholic Archdiocese official site
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