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.
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Traditions
Sacred and Liturgical LanguagesSourced to the subject's own accountEnglish 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 Attributions
TraditionSourced to the subject's own accountRoman 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 Origins
FoundedFounded 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 Connections
Associated With
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
Source Del. Diocese Settles Priest Abuse Claims for 77M
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
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 Reader Challenges (0)
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