SEOUL (SE): Archbishop Peter Chung Soon-Taick was installed as the 14th archbishop of Seoul, South Korea, and apostolic administrator of Pyongyang, North Korea, at Myeongdong Cathedral on December 8, the solemnity of Mary Immaculate, patron of the Church in Korea, the archdiocese’s Committee for Communications, announced in a press release.
The installation Mass was attended buy around 600 people, including priests, monks, religious sisters and laity, as well as ranking government officials.
“God has sent Archbishop Peter Chung as the leader most needed in our time. As the Church is suffering as much as we are in this Covid-19 era, let us follow the lives of all the saints under the leadership of the new archbishop,” said Andrew Cardinal Yeom Soo-jung, the apostolic administrator and predecessor of Archbishop Chung.
In his first homily as head of the Archdiocese of Seoul, Archbishop Chung some changes that he would try to bring to the Catholic Church in Korea.
“As the Holy Father mentioned in Christus vivit [Christ lives], I would like to encourage and accompany all young people while making the Archdiocese of Seoul a synodal Church where all laypeople, priests and the religious take co-responsibility and walk forward together as the People of God,” the new archbishop said.
Archbishop Chung was appointed by Pope Francis on October 28 [Sunday Examiner, November 7].
