Roman Catholic Diocese of Ch’unch’on

The Diocese of Chunchon (also romanized Chuncheon and Ch’unch’on) is a particular church of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in South Korea. A suffragan of the Archdiocese of Seoul, it has ecclesiastic authority over the province of Gangwon-do. Its mother church is Jungnim-dong Cathedral in Chuncheon.

The episcopal see was erected April 25, 1939 from the Apostolic Vicariate of Seoul as the Prefecture Apostolic of Shunsen, the city's name during the period of Japanese rule of Korea. It was renamed the Prefecture Apostolic 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].

List of bishops

• Monsignor Owen McPolin (1939–1941)-Apostolic Administrator
• Bishop Paul Noh Gi-nam (1941–1945)-Apostolic Administrator
• Bishop Thomas F. Quinlan (1945–1966)
• Bishop Thomas Stewart (1966–1994)
• Bishop John Chang-yik (1994–2010)
• Bishop Luke Kim Woon-hoe (2010-present)

References

1. ^ "Diocese of Ch’unch’on". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/diocese/dchnc.html. Retrieved 2008-05-17. 

External links

• (Korean) [1]

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