Roman Catholic Diocese of Chuncheon

The Diocese of Chunchon (also romanized Chuncheon and Ch’unch’on, Latin: Dioecesis Chuncheonensis) is a diocese of the Latin Church of the Roman Catholic Church in South Korea.

The jurisdiction was erected on April 25, 1939 as a missionary pre-diocesan jurisdiction on territory split off from the Apostolic Vicariate of Seoul under the name Apostolic Prefecture of Shunsen, the city's name during the period of Japanese rule of Korea.

[1][2] On 22 March 1965, it lost territory to establish the Diocese of Wonju 원주

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