Executive Officers of SWC 2022 visit Archbishop Peter Chung Soon-taick
Mr. Daniel Han Seung-su and the executive officers of SIGNIS World Congress 2022 Organizing Committee made an official call on His Excellency Peter Chung Soon-taick, O.C.D., Archbishop of Seoul, on February 16, 2022.
Archbishop Chung is a joint Honorary President of SWC 2022 with Cardinal Andrew YEOM Soo-jung. Mr. Han extended the deep gratitude to the utmost support of Seoul Archdiocese and briefly reported the preparation of SWC 2022, especially on its metaverse platform. He also emphasized that SWC Organizing Committee has tried to seek the way to evangelize in this pandemic situation through the virtual space in this digital era.
Archbishop Jung mentioned that Seoul Archdiocese has tried to seek a way to evangelize the youth on metaverse via its department of the youth. Also he encouraged the effort of the preparing all members and said to support the SWC2022.
Last October 2021, Pope Francis appointed Bishop Peter Chung Soon-taick as the new archbishop of Seoul and the apostolic administrator of the Diocese of Pyongyang. Archbishop Chung took office on December 8 after Cardinal Yeom, who is also a joint Honorary President of SWC 2022.
The SWC 2022 will be held as a hybrid conference, attended both as a virtual conference as well as in-person, in the midst of the Omicron from Aug 15 to 18, 2022 at Sogang University in Seoul, South Korea.
The list of visitors were Mr. Daniel Han Seung-soo, President; Mr. Gabriel Kim Chang-ock, Vice President; Mr. Francis Kim Seung-wal, General Director; and Mr. Paul Back Seung-woong, Secretary.
