Cities

Wilmington

United States

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General Reference

Divinity Atlas. "Wilmington." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://www.divinityatlas.com/cities/wilmington-delaware.

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Divinity Atlas. (n.d.). Wilmington. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://www.divinityatlas.com/cities/wilmington-delaware

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@misc{divinityatlas-wilmington,
  author = {Divinity Atlas},
  title = {Wilmington},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://www.divinityatlas.com/cities/wilmington-delaware},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

Wilmington is the largest city in Delaware, at the confluence of the Christina River and Brandywine Creek, and the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Wilmington.

Facts

Origins

Founded

Founded as Fort Christina in March 1638 by Swedish and Finnish colonists under Peter Minuit, the first permanent European settlement on the Delaware River; taken by the Dutch in 1655 and chartered as an English town in 1739. 1

Attributions

Traditionthe subject's own account

Roman Catholic Christianity, as the seat of the Diocese of Wilmington, erected on 3 March 1868 as a suffragan see of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, covering Delaware and the eastern shore of Maryland and Virginia. 2

Traditions

Sacred and Liturgical Languagesthe subject's own account

English in ordinary parish worship, with Swedish surviving in the memory of the colony's Lutheran founding congregation and Latin preserved as the historic liturgical language of the Roman Rite. 3

Cross-Tradition Connections

Associated With

Catholic Diocese of Wilmington Emerges From Chapter 11, Sizable Trust Funded for Abuse Survivors

This source names Wilmington directly: "counsel involved in the Diocese of Wilmington Chapter 11 case, describing U.S."

Source Catholic Diocese of Wilmington Emerges From Chapter 11, Sizable Trust Funded for Abuse Survivors

Delaware

Diocese of Wilmington 2011 Bankruptcy Settlement

Source Del. Diocese Settles Priest Abuse Claims for 77M

Reorus Torkillus Organizes the First Lutheran Congregation in North America at Fort Christina

This source names Wilmington directly: "the Delaware River, near present day Wilmington, on 17 April 1640, having sailed with the second expedition to the colony of New Sweden aboard the Kalmar Nyckel."

Source E. Clifford Nelson, The Lutherans in North America, Revised Edition (Fortress Press, 1980)E. Clifford Nelson

United States

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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