Timothy Yu Gyoung-chon

Timothy Yu Gyoung-chon was a South Korean Catholic prelate who served as an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Seoul from 2013 to 2025.

Biography

Yu Gyoung-chon was born on September 4, 1962 in Seoul, the youngest of four sons and two daughters to Yu Tak and Park Geum-soon.
Yu Gyoung-chon, who was baptized at Seodaemun Cathedral in the first year of middle school following his second sister; he volunteered at Myeongdong Cathedral from then on. In 1978, he entered Seongshin High School in Seoul.
After graduating from the Catholic [University of Korea], he went to Germany to study abroad for four years in 1988, and after studying at the University of Würzburg, he obtained a doctorate in theology from St. George's University in Frankfurt with a thesis on the topic of The Problem of Preservation of the Created Order in the Council Process, and was ordained a priest in 1992.
He then moved to the position of professor at the Catholic University of Korea, and served as the director of the Institute for Integrated Pastoral Affairs of the Roman Catholic [Archdiocese of Seoul|Archdiocese of Seoul] from 2008 to 2013 and published the Regulations of the Archdiocese of Seoul. He was appointed the head of Myeongil-dong Parish on August 27, 2013, followed by auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Seoul on December 30, 2013, just over four months later.
Yu died at the Seoul St. Mary's Hospital on August 15, 2025, after battling biliary tract cancer. He was 62.