Church in Korea to Celebrate
Diocesan Press Service. October 7, 1964 [XXV-11]
On All Saints Day, the Anglican Church in Korea will begin to observe its 75th anniversary. This jubilee year will be kept until St. Michael and All Angels day, 1965.
On All Saints day 1889 Charles J. Corfe was consecrated Bishop of the Anglican Church in Korea and arrived at Inchon almost 11 months later on St. Michael and All Angels day. Before this date, both the Anglican Church in China and the Anglican Church in Japan had sent missionaries into Korea but neither had met with success. The Bishops of both these churches turned to the Church of England for help and it was given.
Seventy five years ago there were no men and no money available to launch the Korean Mission. Bishop Corfe was advised that his naval pension should be sufficient to support him. A doctor joined him in America and started medical work in Inchon. But the Bishop had no clergy to sail with him. Today, the Rt. Rev. John Chales Daly, who has been in Korea since 1955, has 24 active clergy, a religious order of 10 sisters and four women workers. The Diocese, which comprises the whole of the Republic of Korea, has a Theological College and parishes throughout the country.