Anglican Church of Korea

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Korean spelling
Korean alphabet : 대한 성공회
Hanja : 大 韓聖公 會
Revised Romanization : Daehan Seonggonghoe
McCune-Reischauer : Taehan Sŏnggonghoi
Paul Kim Keun-sang (2013)

The Anglican Church of Korea is a member church of the Anglican Communion . It consists of three dioceses and has around 65,000 members.

It goes back to missionary work from England, which began in the late 19th century. In 1965 the first local bishop was ordained. In 1993 the Archbishop of Canterbury provided her with her own primate based in Seoul and thus granted her independence. The current primate is the South Korean Paul Kim Keun-sang .

diocese Seat bishop
Busan Busan Onesimus Park Dong-sin
Daejeon Daejeon Michael Kwon Hi-yeon
Seoul Seoul Paul Kim Keun-sang

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Anglican Church of Korea on the World Council of Churches website. Retrieved August 10, 2013.
  2. ^ Anglican Communion: Busan , anglicancommunion.org. Retrieved August 10, 2013.
  3. ^ Anglican Communion: Daejeon , anglicancommunion.org. Retrieved August 10, 2013.
  4. ^ The Primates of the Anglican Communion , anglicancommunion.org. Retrieved August 10, 2013.