Diocese of Pyongyang
| Diocese of Pyongyang | |
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| Basic data | |
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| Country | North Korea |
| Ecclesiastical province | Seoul |
| Diocesan bishop | Sedis vacancy |
| Apostolic Administrator | Andrew Yeom Soo-young |
| founding | 1962 |
| Diocesan priest | 20 (1963 / AP 2002 ) |
| Religious sisters | 59 (1963 / AP 2002 ) |
| rite | Roman rite |
| Liturgical language | Korean |
| cathedral | Jangchung Cathedral |
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Pyongyang ( lat. : Dioecesis Pyeongyangensis , kor. : 천주교 평양 교구 ) is in North Korea located diocese of the Roman Catholic Church based in Pyongyang .
history
The diocese was on March 10, 1962 by Pope John XXIII. built. Previously it was founded in 1927 as the Apostolic Prefecture and in 1939 it was promoted to the Apostolic Vicariate . Its chief shepherd is Francis Hong Yong-ho (* 1906), who has been missing since 1962 and can be assumed to be dead. Cardinal Andrew Yeom Soo-jung is therefore appointed as Apostolic Administrator . The seat of the bishop is in Jangchung Cathedral . The diocese is a suffragan of the South Korean Archdiocese of Seoul .
The Vatican has given the number of believers in the diocese to be 800. The national North Korean government estimates it at around 3,000. An exact determination is currently impossible. The number of parishes is also unknown. The first three Apostolic Prefects in the diocese were from Ireland .
In 2007, a process of beatification was initiated for the 36 Tokwon martyrs who perished between 1949 and 1952 in the concentration camps set up by dictator Kim Il-Sung .
Ordinaries
Apostolic Prefect of Pyongyang
- Patrick James Byrne (1927-1929)
- John Edward Morris (1930-1936)
Vicars Apostolic of Pyongyang
- William Francis O'Shea (1939-1944)
- Francis Hong Yong-ho (1944–1962)
Bishops of Pyongyang
- Francis Hong Yong-ho (1962-)
Apostolic Administrators of Pyongyang
- Nicholas Cheong Jin-suk (1998–2012)
- Andrew Yeom Soo-young (2012-)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The "Martyrs of Tokwon" ( Memento of the original from March 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Homepage of the Diocese of Würzburg, accessed on March 13, 2014
