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All territorial jurisdictions in Korea are part of the Latin Church, covering both South Korea and North Korea, comprising: three ecclesiastical provinces, each headed by a metropolitan bishop seated in an archdiocese, and a total of 14 suffragan dioceses; the Military Ordinariate of South Korea.
The North Korean Catholic Church, ecclesiastically united with South Korea, is composed of the two dioceses of Diocese of Pyongyang and Diocese of Hamhung (suffragan to the Metropolitan Archbishop of Seoul), and the only territorial abbey outside Europe, the Territorial Abbey of Tokwon or Dokwon.
The Metropolitan Archdiocese of Seoul (Latin: Archidioecesis Metropolitae Seulensis, Korean: 서울대교구) is a Metropolitan archdiocese of the Latin Church of the Catholic Church comprising the metropolitan area of Seoul, South Korea, whose province comprises parts of South Korea (which has two more provinces) and all North Korea, yet depends on the missionary Dicastery for Evangelization.
The Catholic Church in Korea originated from contact with the Western world. Trade and the exchange of ideas, primarily beginning in the 18th century, [ 1 ] between the Korean peninsula and Europe resulted in the proliferation of books on Catholic teachings, and the spread of Western knowledge.
Dioceses of the Roman Catholic Church in South Korea. Pages in category "Roman Catholic dioceses in South Korea" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total.
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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Jeju (제주, also romanized Jeju, Latin: Dioecesis Cheiuensis) is a Latin rite suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Gwangju, South Korea, yet depends on the missionary Dicastery for Evangelization.