Dioceses
MILITARY ORDINARIATE IN KOREA
Classification | Organizations | Persons | |
Catholics | 72,772 | ||
Parishes | 96 | ||
Secondary Stations | 122 | ||
Cardinal | - | ||
Archbishops | - | ||
Bishops | 1 | ||
Korean Priests | Diocesan | 1 | |
Missionary | - | ||
Religious | 3 | ||
Other Diocesan | 99 | ||
Foreign Priests | Diocesan | - | |
Missionary | - | ||
Religious | - | ||
Other Diocesan | - | ||
Religious Inst. | Men | 3 | 3 |
/Members | Women | 8 | 27 |
Seminaries / Seminarians | - | - | |
Kindergartens | 1 | 150 | |
Primary Schools | - | - | |
Middle Schools | - | - | |
High Schools | - | - | |
Catechetical Institutes | - | - | |
Colleges | - | - | |
Universities | - | - | |
Sunday Schools | 666 | ||
Medical Institutes | General Hospitals | - | |
Clinics | - | ||
Welfare Institutions | Community Welfare Institutions | - | |
Others | - | ||
Cultural Institutions | 1 |
(2016.12.31.)
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