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Roman Catholic Diocese Of Jeonju

The Diocese of Jeonju (Latin: Dioecesis Ieoniuensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in South Korea. It is in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of Gwangju, yet depends on the missionary Dicastery for Evangelization.

Its cathedra is in the Joongang Cathedral of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, in the episcopal see of Jeonju 전주시, Jeollabuk-do 전라북도. It also has a former cathedral, now Jeondong Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, in Jeonju. Both are named for the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

History

Statistics

As of 2014, it pastorally served 190,465 Catholics (10.2% of 1,872,965 total) on 8,066 km in 93 parishes and 5 missions with 213 priests (209 diocesan, 4 religious), 341 lay religious (7 brothers, 334 sisters) and 42 seminarians.

Ordinaries

Apostolic Prefects of Zenshu

Apostolic Prefects of Jeonju

  • Bartolomeo Hyun-bae Kim (1950–1957)

Apostolic Vicars of Jeonju

Bishops of Jeonju

See also

References

  1. ^ "Diocese of Jeonju". Giga Catholic. Retrieved 2014-02-13.
  2. ^ "Rinunce e nomine".

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