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Syracuse

United States

Syracuse is a city in central New York State, near the Finger Lakes, and the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Syracuse.

Facts
Origins
Founded
Grew from Ephraim Webster's 1786 trading post on Onondaga Lake, on land whose brine springs, noted by the Jesuit Simon Le Moyne in 1654, fed a major salt industry; renamed Syracuse in 1820 for the Sicilian city. 1
Traditions
Sacred and Liturgical LanguagesSourced to the subject's own account
English in ordinary parish worship, with Latin preserved as the historic liturgical language of the Roman Rite alongside the vernacular. 3
Attributions
TraditionSourced to the subject's own account
Roman Catholic Christianity, as the seat of the Diocese of Syracuse, erected on 26 November 1886 by Pope Leo XIII, covering seven counties of central New York. 2
Connections

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Source Cornplanter: Chief Warrior of the Allegany SenecasThomas S. Abler
Source Judge to Approve Syracuse Diocese's $176M Bankruptcy Plan

This source names Syracuse directly: "and this academic book, published by Syracuse University Press, examines the jinn, the class of beings recognized in Islamic cosmology alongside humans and angels, tracing their treatment across the..."

Source Islam, Arabs, and the Intelligent World of the JinnAmira El-Zein

This source names Syracuse directly: "movements in America, published by Syracuse University Press in 1997, carrying a direct scholarly treatment of Else Christensen and the Odinist Fellowship and its place within the broader Odinist..."

Source Jeffrey Kaplan, Radical Religion in AmericaJeffrey Kaplan

This source names Syracuse directly: "and this academic book, published by Syracuse University Press, traces the historical origins and development of the Rastafari movement in Jamaica, working from archival research and direct..."

Source Rastafari: Roots and IdeologyBarry Chevannes

This source names Syracuse directly: "Barbara Graymont's 1972 study from Syracuse University Press, A New York State Study, is the standard scholarly account of the Six Nations during the American Revolution, covering the Oneida's break..."

Source The Iroquois in the American RevolutionBarbara Graymont

This source names Syracuse directly: "The Maronites in History, published by Syracuse University Press in 1986, is a scholarly history of the Maronite Christian church, tracing its origins, its relationship with Rome and its place..."

Source The Maronites in HistoryMatti Moosa

This source names Syracuse directly: "Millenarian Movement, published by Syracuse University Press in 1996, is a scholarly study analyzing the Nation of Islam through the lens of millenarian movement theory, tracing its history from..."

Source The Nation of Islam: An American Millenarian MovementMartha F. Lee

This source names Syracuse directly: "Methodist Publishing Association in Syracuse, New York, running to 690 numbered hymns."

Source The Wesleyan Methodist Hymnal (Hymnary.org)Wesleyan Methodist Publishing Association

This source names Syracuse directly: "of Margaret Towner by the Cayuga-Syracuse Presbytery in New York, its first woman minister; and on the Presbyterian Church in the United States (the southern body) reaching the same decision in..."

Source Women Ministers, 1955 to 1966, and Margaret Towner (The Presbyterian Outlook)
Sources
1. Encyclopaedia Britannica (online academic reference)
Encyclopaedia Britannica editors, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., 2024account of the group's founding and originView the Source
2. Annuario Pontificio and Annuarium Statisticum Ecclesiae
Central Office of Church Statistics, Holy See, Libreria Editrice Vaticanatradition factthe holders' own account
3. Sacrosanctum Concilium, Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy
Second Vatican Council, Holy See, 1963fact about the tradition's sacred languagesthe holders' own accountView the Source
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