Reverend Mark Trollope, third Bishop of the Anglican Church of Korea and was opened for public worship on 2 May 1926.
The Cathedral was built in a Romanesque style with hints of Korean architecture and was designed by a British architect Arthur Stansfield Dixon.
Mark Trollope is buried in the Crypt Chapel and his remains lie under a copperplate engraving of him by Francis Cooper which was completed in 1932.
At present up to one hundred worshippers, foreigners and Koreans, gather in the Crypt Chapel for Holy Communion in English every Sunday at 9.30 am.
In a small space located at the top right corner of the crypt, the remains of the first consecrated Korean Anglican archbishop, Rev.