MILITARY ORDINARIATE IN KOREA 

(2010.12.31.)

 

Classification

Organizations

Persons

Catholics
 
79,919
Parishes
96
 
Secondary Stations
154
 
Archbishops
 
-
Bishops
 
1
Korean Priests Diocesan
 
1(93)
Missionary
 
-
Religious
 
-
Other Diocesan
 
-
Foreign Priests Diocesan
 
-
Missionary
 
-
Religious
 
-
Other Diocesan
 
-
Religious Inst.
/ Members		 Men
-
-
Women
9
33
Seminaries / Seminarians
-
-
Primary Schools
-
-
Middle Schools
-
-
High Schools
-
-
Catechetical Institutes
-
-
Universities
-
-
Kindergartens
1
150
Sunday Schools
1,137
Medical Institutes General Hospitals
-
 
Clinics
-
 
Welfare Institutions Community Welfare Institutions
-
 
Others
-
 
Cultural Institutions
1
 

 

 

 

 

GENERAL INFORMATION 

 

           Military Chaplain Corps:  February 1, 1951

           Ordinariate:                    October 23, 1989

           Bishop:                         Most Rev. Francis Xavier Yu, O.F.M., D.D.

           Appointed:                     July 16, 2010

           Consecrated:                 Sep 15, 2010

 

           Former Presidents & Advisor of Military Chaplain Corps:

                                               Adv.Very Rev. Msgr. George Carroll, M.M.(1951~1954)

                                               1st.Most Rev. John D. Choi, D.D.(1951~1954)

                                               2nd.Most Rev. Paul Ro, D.D.(1954~1967)

                                               3rd.Most Rev. Daniel Tji, J.C.D., D.D.(1967~1970)

                                               4th.Most Rev. Daniel Tji, J.C.D., D.D.(1970~1973)

                                               5th.His Eminence Stephen Cardinal Kim, LL.D., D.D.(1973~1978)

                                               6th.Most Rev. Angelo N. Kim, S.T.D., D.D.(1978~1981)

                                               7th.Most Rev. Angelo N. Kim, S.T.D., D.D.(1981~1984)

                                               8th.Most Rev. Joseph Kyeong, D.D.(1984~1989)

 

           Former Ordinary: 1st.Most Rev. Augustine Cheong, D.D.(1989~1998)

                                   2nd.Most Rev. Peter Lee, D.D.(1999~2010)

 

           Religious Institutes

 

  Women:Congregation of the Sacred Word; Franciscan Missionaries of Mary; Sisters Association of St. Joseph Charity of Mirinae; Sisters of St. Paul of Chartres(Daegu Provincial); Sisters of St. Paul of Chartres(Seoul Provincial); Little Servants of the Holy Family of Seoul; Congregation of the Religious Missionaries of St. Dominic; The Society of the Sacred Heart; Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul of Suwon; Franciscan Missionary Sisters of Assisi; Sisters of Our Lady of Perpetual Help; Handmaids of the Sacred Heart of Jesus; Olivetan Benedictine Sisters of Busan; Blessed Sacrament Sisters of Charity; Carmelite Missionaries; Missionary Benedictine Sisters of Tutzing, Daegu Priory; Sisters of the Blessed Korean Martyrs

 

 

 

 

MILITARY ORDINARIATE OFFICE

 

 

P.O.Box 31, Yongsan 140-600

☎ <02>749-1921~3

Fax 790-5768

http://www.gunjong.or.kr

e-mail: gunjong@catholic.or.kr

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