* Symposium of the Committee to Venerate Martyrs of the Diocese of Uijeongbu

The Committee to Venerate Martyrs of the Diocese of Uijeongbu (Director: Rev. John Choe Seong-u) in cooperation with the Research Foundation of Korean Church History held a symposium on the subject of “The Northern Part of Gyeonggi-do and the Catholic Church in Korea” at the Baekseokdong Parish in Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do, on August 29, 2008.  

At this symposium, historians and experts of the Church gave their presentations and illuminated the aspects of Catholicism of the northern part of Gyeonggi-do chronologically from the Early Church in Korea, through the persecutions, to Japan’s colonial rule of Korea.

In his congratulatory address, the Most Rev. Joseph Lee Han-taek, Bishop of Uijeongbu, said that this symposium to search for the diocesan root of faith would be a significant step in connection with the history of the Diocese of Uijeongbu and moreover with the history of the Catholic Church in Korea. He hoped that this symposium would be a proper place to be realized and understood the divine providence in history.