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The Roman Catholic Church in South Korea is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope and curia in Rome.
There are over 5.1 million Catholics in South Korea - over 10% the population. South Korea has the fourth largest number of saints (since 1984). There are 15 dioceses including three archdioceses of Seoul, Taegu and Gwangju, and the military ordiniate. North Korean Catholic Church is ecclesiastically united with South Korea, composed of two dioceses of Pyongyang and Hamheung (suffragen to the Metropolitan of Seoul) and the only territorial abbey outside Europe, that of Dokwon.
[edit] Roman Catholic Dioceses in Korea
[edit] Metropolitan Province of Seoul
[edit] Metropolitan Province of Daegu
[edit] Metropolitan Province of Gwangju
[edit] Military Ordinariate
- Military Ordinariate of South Korea
[edit] Dioceses in North Korea
The dioceses in North Korea are ecclesiastically suffragen to the Province of Seoul. The South Korean bishops serve as the Apostolic Administrators of the Diocese
- Diocese of Pyongyang-Archbishop of Seoul as the Apostolic Administrator
- Diocese of Hamheung-Bishop of Chuncheon as the Apostolic Administrator
[edit] Territorial Abbey
- Dokwon (덕원)in North Korea is the see of the only Territorial Abbey outside Europe. The abbey has been vacant for more than 50 years until Fr. Francis Ri was appointed the abbot in 2005. The Abbey was never united with or changed into a diocese presumably due to the lack of effective church activity in the area since the division of Korea at the end of World War II.
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