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Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - On April 18, 2024, Cardinal Luis Antonio G. Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization, appointed Rev. Father Joseph Cheong Yong-jin of the clergy of Cheonju, as National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies (PMS) in Korea for a five-year period.
The new national director was born in 1968 and attended the seminary in Rome, where he earned a master's degree in missiology at the Pontifical Gregorian University. He was ordained a priest in 1997 and after his ordination worked as a parochial vicar in two parishes. From 2000 to 2007 he studied biblical theology at the Gregorian University. After returning to the diocese, he worked as parish priest in three parishes, was President of the Diocesan Training Institute, Head of the Diocesan Institute for Evangelization and Biblical Apostolate.
Since 2023, he has been an administrative assistant and secretary of the Commission for Mission and Pastoral Care of the Korean Bishops' Conference. In addition to Korean, he also speaks English and Italian. (EG) (Agenzia Fides, 24/4/2024)
