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Diocese of Syracuse
Diœcesis Syracusensis
Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception
Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception
Location
Country United States
Territory 5,479 square miles (14,190 km2) in Central New York (Counties of Onondaga, Oneida, Broome, Chenango, Cortland, Madison, and Oswego, New York)
Metropolitan Archdiocese of New York
Statistics
Population
Total
Catholics 		(as of 2020)
1,186,894
342,361[1] (28.8%)
Parishes 116
Schools 21
Information
Denomination Catholic
Sui iuris church Latin Church
Rite Roman Rite
Established November 26, 1886
Cathedral Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception
Patron saint Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception[2]
Secular priests 180
Current leadership
Pope Leo XIV
Bishop Douglas Lucia
Metropolitan Archbishop Ronald Hicks
Vicar General John J. Kurgan
Bishops emeritus Robert J. Cunningham
Map
Website
syracusediocese.org

The Diocese of Syracuse (Latin: Diœcesis Syracusensis) is a diocese of the Catholic Church in Upstate New York in the United States. Its episcopal see is located in Syracuse. It is a suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of New York. Douglas Lucia is the bishop.

Territory

The Diocese of Syracuse includes seven counties: Broome, Chenango, Cortland, Madison, Oneida, Onondaga, Oswego.

History

1600 to 1700

The first Catholic missionary, Simon Le Moyne, traveled to central New York in 1654 during a brief truce between the French and the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) Confederacy. He was well suited for the expedition given his fluency in both the Huron (Wyandot) and Haudenosaunee languages. He left Quebec City in the French colony of New France to travel to the upper Mohawk Valley. During his 1654 visit, Onondaga Native Americans showed Le Moyne a spring that they believed to be cursed; he immediately recognized as a harmless salt spring.[3]

In another visit to the area in 1656, the priests Pierre-Joseph-Marie Chaumonot and Claude Dablon laid the groundwork to build Sainte Marie among the Iroquois near present-day Syracuse. It was a sizable mission, housing about seven Jesuit priests and fifty French workmen.

In 1658, the French were forced to abandon Sainte Marie due to fears of an attacks by Mohawk/Haudenosaunee tribesmen. Additional missions in the area were undertaken later by both Jesuit and Sulpicians missionaries.

After the Dutch ceded their colony of New Amsterdam (New York) to the British in 1667, political tensions started rising in central New York. The British and French began disputing the territory, leading them to incite their allies, the French-allied Wyandot and the British-allied Haudenosaunee, to fight each other. This situation led to rivalries, atrocities, and reprisals between the two Native American nations. This situation made it difficult for missionaries to safely maintain and continue their missions.

1700 to 1800

Just before the year 1700, the colonial legislature under Governor Bellomont passed laws banning Catholics in the British Province of New York, which included all of Upstate New York. One law mandated a life sentence to any Catholic priest. The penalty for harboring a Catholic was a £250 fine plus three days in the pillory. As a result, Catholic missionaries left the province. The last Jesuit missionary to the Iroquois surrendered at Albany in 1709.[4] Great Britain gained full legal control over this territory with the signing of the Treaty of Paris (1763).

After the approval of the New York Constitution in 1777, freedom of worship for Catholics was guaranteed. This was soon followed by the same guarantee in the US Constitution.

On November 26, 1784, Pope Pius VI erected the Apostolic Prefecture of United States of America, including all of the new United States. On November 6, 1789, the same pope raised this prefecture to the Diocese of Baltimore.[5] An early Catholic in the central New Region was Dominick Lynch, the founder of Rome. Lynch signed an address of congratulations by American Catholics to George Washington upon his election as American president in 1789.

1800 to 1886

On April 8, 1808, Pope Pius VII erected the Diocese of New York, taking all of New York State from the Diocese of Baltimore. The population of Catholics swelled when teams of Irish Catholics arrived to construct the Erie Canal, and also when the opening of the canal increased trade, commerce, and additional immigration. Paul McQuade, pastor of St. Mary's Church in Albany from 1813 to 1815, frequently visited Utica, and probably celebrated Masses there in private homes. The first public mass in Utica was celebrated in the courthouse on January 10, 1819. The first new Catholic church in the region, St. John's, was constructed in Utica in 1821. With the advent of railroads in the region, even more Catholic immigrants started moving there.

In 1847, recognizing the population growth in Upstate New York, Pope Pius IX erected the Diocese of Albany, including all of the current territory of the Diocese of Syracuse.

1886 to 1923

In 1886, Pope Leo XIII erected the Diocese of Syracuse, taking its territory from the Diocese of Albany. The pope named Monsignor Patrick Ludden of Albany as the first bishop of Syracuse.[6] St. John the Evangelist Church was selected to serve as the first cathedral. At the time of Ludden's arrival, the diocese contained 70,000 Catholics, 74 priests, 46 parishes, 20 mission churches, and 16 parochial schools.[7] He selected St. Mary's Church in Syracuse as his new cathedral in 1903, and dedicated it in September 1910. In 1909, John Grimes of Albany was appointed coadjutor bishop of the diocese.

By the time of Ludden's death in 1912, the diocese had a Catholic population over 150,000, with 129 priests, 80 parishes, 36 mission churches, and 21 parochial schools.[7] When Ludden died, Grimes served as bishop until his death in 1922.[8]

1923 to 1970

Daniel Curley was the next bishop, beginning in 1923. During Curley's tenure, the Catholic population of the diocese increased from 173,200 to 201,152.[9] He established a Society for the Propagation of the Faith, 28 parishes, 18 schools, the Loretto Rest facility, and Lourdes Hospital. At his invitation, the Sisters of Perpetual Rosary opened the first home for cloistered nuns in Syracuse.[10] Curley died in 1932.

In 1933, John A. Duffy became the fourth bishop of Syracuse. In 1934, when fan dancer Sally Rand was scheduled to appear in Syracuse, Duffy commented, "I must regard the presence of the Rand woman on the stage as an act of public defiance of the Catholic people of Syracuse."[11] Four years later in 1937, Pius XI named Duffy as bishop of the Diocese of Buffalo.

Walter Foery replaced Duffy in 1937. In 1959, he expressed "shock and deep regret" that the Syracuse Metropolitan Health Council had admitted Planned Parenthood.[12] After 33 years as bishop, Foery retired in 1970.

1970 to present

Auxiliary David Cunningham of Syracuse replaced Foery in 1970, named by Pope Paul VI. Cunningham retired six years later and Paul VI named Auxiliary Bishop Francis Harrison of Syracuse to replace him. Harrison practiced a collegial manner of governing, and worked to include laity and especially women in the diocesan affairs.[13] He launched diocesan programs for African Americans, Hispanic, Native Americans, and the disabled.[14] He once played a game of golf with comedian Bob Hope, who later recorded a radio ad for the diocese's first HOPE Appeal, an annual fundraiser Harrison started in 1978.[15] Harrison resigned in 1987.

Pope John Paul II named Auxiliary Bishop Joseph O'Keefe of the Archdiocese of New York as the next bishop of Syracuse. O'Keefe served in Syracuse until his retirement in 1995. The same pope then selected Monsignor James Moynihan of the Diocese of Rochester to succeed O'Keefe as bishop. In 1998, Moynihan removed the priest Richard McBrien from his job as a columnist for the diocesan newspaper, replacing him with writer George Weigel; this action dismayed some members of the diocesan clergy.[16] Moynihan was a founding member of the Bishop Sheen Ecumenical Housing Foundation, named after Bishop Fulton J. Sheen.

After Moynihan retired in 2009, Pope Benedict XVI selected Bishop Robert J. Cunningham of the Diocese of Ogdensburg as the next bishop of Syracuse. He retired in 2018. The current bishop of the Diocese of Syracuse is Douglas Lucia, formerly a priest of the Diocese of Ogdensburg. He was named by Pope Francis in 2019.[17][18]

Sex abuse scandals and bankruptcy

In a 2011 legal deposition, Bishop Cunningham made statements about the victims of sex abuse describing them as "culpable" and "accomplices".[19] In 2015, when those statements became public, Cunningham said "my choice of words should have been better, [...] but I can assure you that I did not believe the individual involved in the case was at fault." He repeatedly reiterated that he doesn't believe children are responsible for being abused.[20]

In June 2020, Bishop Lucia announced that the diocese had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy due the cost of lawsuits from sexual abuse cases.[21] Just days before the bankruptcy filing, 38 plaintiffs filed new sex abuse lawsuits under the New York Child Victims Act.[22]

In December 2024, Nathan Brooks, who once served at parishes in Cortland County, pled guilty to endangering the welfare of a child. He was sentenced to probation, counseling, and a full stay-away order from the victim; Brooks also faced a charge of forcible touching, but the family said it was satisfied with the resolution on the endangering charge.[23][24] Cortland County District Attorney Patrick noted that in addition to violating the law, Brooks violated the policies of the diocese.[25]

Bishops

Bishops of Syracuse

  1. Patrick Anthony Ludden (1886–1912)[26]
  2. John Grimes (1912–1922)
  3. Daniel Joseph Curley (1923–1932)
  4. John A. Duffy (1933–1937), appointed Bishop of Buffalo
  5. Walter Andrew Foery (1937–1970)
  6. David Frederick Cunningham (1970–1977)
  7. Francis James Harrison (1977–1987)
  8. Joseph Thomas O'Keefe (1987–1995)
  9. James Michael Moynihan (1995–2009)
  10. Robert J. Cunningham (2009–2019)
  11. Douglas Lucia (2019–present)

Former auxiliary bishops

Thomas Joseph Costello (1978–2004)

list of schools

  • Blessed Sacrament School, Syracuse
  • Holy Cross School, DeWitt
  • Holy Family School, Fairmount
  • Holy Family School, Norwich
  • Immaculate Conception School, Fayetteville
  • Most Holy Rosary School, Syracuse
  • Notre Dame Elementary School, Utica
  • St. James School, Johnson City
  • St. John the Evangelist School, Binghamton
  • St. Mary's Academy, Baldwinsville
  • St. Mary's School, Cortland
  • St. Patrick's School, Oneida
  • St. Rose of Lima School, North Syracuse
  • Trinity Catholic School, Oswego
  • Bishop Ludden-Grimes Junior/Senior High School – Syracuse
  • Notre Dame Junior Senior High School – Utica
  • Seton Catholic Central High School – Binghamton
Coat of arms of Diocese of Syracuse
Notes
Arms was designed and adopted when the diocese was erected
Adopted
1886
Escutcheon
The diocesan arms consists of a blue field with a gold (yellow) Latin cross. Entwined around the cross is a silver (white) dolphin. To the upper left is a silver (white) crescent.
Symbolism
The blue field with the gold cross represents faith. The dolphin comes from a coin minted in the ancient Greek city of Syracuse in Sicily. The crescent honors Mary in her title of the Immaculate Conception.

Canonical status and jurisdiction

Diocese of Syracuse is a diocese of the catholic church of the Catholic Church.[27]

From the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia

Diocese of Syracuse — (Syracusensis)

The Diocese of Syracuse, in the State of New York, comprises the counties of Broome, Chenango, Cortland, Madison, Oneida, Onondaga, and Oswego, and contains an area of 5626 square miles, a little more than one-ninth of the entire state. Out of a population of 609,041, about 161,000, or a little more than one-fourth, are Catholics.

Missions Among the Indians

The Oneidas and the Onondagas occupied lands near the shores of the lakes which bear their names. The first chosen president of the Iroquois was the venerable Ato-tao-ho, a famous Onondaga chief. The Onondagas were the central nation of the League, and not far from the present episcopal city, on Indian Hill, between the ravines formed by the west and middle branches of Limestone Creek in the town of Pompey, about two miles south of Manlius, was the village of Onondaga, the seat of government for the League of the Five Nations. It is probable that some of the Franciscan Fathers of the Recollect reform, whom Champlain obtained from France in 1614 to minister to the French settlers and convert the natives, visited this territory and offered up the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass on the shores of Lakes Onondaga or Oneida, and perhaps what is now Oswego as early as 1615. Father Le Moyne, S.J., however, must be considered the real founder of the Church in the Diocese of Syracuse. Fathers Joseph Chaumonot and Claude Dablon were selected to begin the work of evangelization. They said Mass on the chosen site Sunday, 14 November 1654. A little bark chapel was soon constructed with the assistance of the Indians. St. John the Baptist had been adopted as the patron of the mission, and it was doubtless under his patronage that this first chapel on the soil of New York was dedicated. Another chapel was built for the French settlers, St. Mary's of Ganantaa (Lake Onondaga). But these first missions among the Onondagas and the Oneidas had but an ephemeral existence. The Iroquois were constantly incited against the French missionaries by both the Dutch and English in Albany. James II ascended the throne of England in 1685 and openly professed the Catholic Faith. While Duke of York (1682) he had appointed Colonel Thomas Dongan Governor of the Colony of New York. Dongan, an Irishman and a Catholic, presided over the first representative assembly of New York which gave us the charter of liberties. Loyal to his Faith and country alike he sought to preserve and perpetuate the Catholic missions among the Iroquois without strengthening French influence in the colony. For this purpose he brought over with him three English Jesuits: Thomas Harvey, Charles Gage, and Henry Harrison. He established a Latin school in New York and placed it in charge of these Jesuits. He planned also to establish a settlement of Irish Catholics in the interior of the colony, very likely somewhere within the limits of the present diocese. But when Dongan fell all prospect of liberty for Catholic worship in the colony of New York disappeared, and the hope was expressed at the time of his downfall "that Papists would not henceforth come so freely to settle in the colony". Governor Bellemont of New York secured the passage of a law by the colonial legislature punishing with perpetual imprisonment any priest remaining in the province or coming after 1 November 1700, and any priest who escaped from his dungeon was liable to the penalty of death if he should be retaken. To harbour a Catholic was to incur a fine of £250 and to stand in the pillory for three days. Under these circumstances the Jesuit missions were necessarily closed among the Five Nations. The mission of Ogdensburg, established a little later for the Onondagas, and the Oneidas by Abbé François Picquet, a Sulpician, was finally abandoned in 1760, and the last chapter was closed in the story of the Jesuit missions among the Iroquois.

The Church Among the Whites

Less than a quarter of a century after the final destruction of the missions among the Iroquois the first white settler came to Oriskany. Gradually, a few Catholics followed, John Cunningham of Utica being the first Catholic of whom history makes mention. Rev. Paul McQuade who was ordained in Montreal in 1808 was the first missionary. He was pastor of St. Mary's church, Albany, from 1813 to 1815, and made frequent visitations to Utica. There is no record of where the first Mass was celebrated in Utica, but there is no doubt that it was in the home of John C. Devereux, one of the pioneer Catholics then (1813) a member of the board of trustees of St. Mary's church, Albany. Rev. Michael O'Gorman, a native of Ireland, pastor of St. Mary's church, Albany, from 1817 to 1819, was the founder of the first parish in the Diocese of Syracuse, though not the first pastor. He celebrated the first public Mass in Utica, in the Court House, 10 January 1819. He organized the Catholics, and it was decided to erect a church for Central and Western New York, at Utica. A corporation was duly formed under the name of the "Trustees of the first Catholic Church in the Western District of New York". The first trustees were: John O'Connor of Auburn; John C. Devereux and Nicholas Devereux of Utica; Morris Hogan of New Hartford; Oliver Western of Johnstown; Thomas McCarthy of Syracuse; John McGuire of Rochester; and Charles Carroll of Genesee River. The resident congregation did not exceed thirty. Rev. John Farnan, a native of Ireland, appointed pastor, began at once the erection of St. John's church, Utica, and the little chapel was dedicated by Bishop Connoly, 19 August, 1821. While pastor of Utica, Father Farnan visited Rochester, in 1820, and celebrated the first public Mass in that city. He was the first resident priest to attend the Catholics of Brooklyn. Among the Catholic laymen of that early period, might be mentioned James Lynch and Thomas McCarthy of Lynchville, now Rome, N.Y. Dominick Lynch was one of the first trustees of St. Peter's church, New York, and in 1790 when the Catholics of the United States presented an address of congratulation to George Washington, on his election to the presidency, he was one of the four laymen who signed it.

The Diocese of Syracuse

The Diocese of Syracuse was projected by the Holy See, 12 September, 1886, and Rt. Rev. Patrick Anthony Ludden, D.D., then vicar-general of the Diocese of Albany, and rector of St. Peter's church, Troy, was nominated for the comtemplated see. Father Ludden declined the honour. Thereupon, considerable correspondence passed between Archbishop Corrigan of New York and the Cardinal Prefect of the Sacred Congregation of the Propaganda in Rome. Finally, the Diocese of Syracuse was erected by Leo XIII, 20 November, 1886, and Father Ludden, in spite of his emphatic refusal, was appointed bishop of the new see, 14 December, 1886. He was born 4 February, 1836, near Castlebar, County Mayo, Ireland, and was ordained priest, 21 May, 1864, in the Grand Seminary, Montreal, by Bishop Bourget. He was rector of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Albany, under Bishop McCloskey, and vicar general under Bishops Conroy and McNeirny, and for seven years he had been rector of St. Peter's church, Troy. He was consecrated at Syracuse, 1 May, 1887, by Archbishop Corrigan of New York, assisted by Bishop McQuade of Rochester, and Bishop McNeirny of Albany. When the diocese was established, there were but 64 secular, and 10 religious priests; 46 parish, and 20 mission churches; 15 chapels; 16 parochial schools; 2 academies; 5 orphan asylums; and 2 hospitals. Rt. Rev. Mgr. John Grimes, D.D., was appointed coadjutor Bishop of Syracuse, with the title of Bishop of Imeria, 9 February, 1909. He was born in Ireland, 18 December, 1852, made his ecclesiastical studies in the Grand Seminary, Montreal, and was ordained to the priesthood in Albany, 19 February, 1882, by Bishop McNeirny, of Albany. He was consecrated bishop 16 May, 1909, in the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Syracuse, by Archbishop Farley of New York. St. John the Evangelist church in Syracuse was the pro-cathedral until 1903. At that time, Bishop Ludden purchased with his own money, property adjoining St. Mary's church, which had been planned and constructed by Rev. James A. O'Hara, D.D., for many years one of the most prominent figures in Central New York. He died 26 Dec, 1889. Bishop Ludden, at his own expense, erected on the property a new cathedral and consecrated it 25 September, 1910.

Among the pioneer priests of the diocese may be mentioned: Right Rev. David W. Bacon and the Right Rev. Francis P. McFarland; Fathers William Beecham, Thomas Daly, Michael Hackett, Michael Heas, Bartholomew F. McLoghlin, Leopold Moczygemba, O.M.C., Walter J. Quarter. The prominent laymen include Francis Baumer, Ulric Burke, M.D., John Carton, John C. Devereux, Nicholas Devereux, Capt. David Dodge, Francis Kernan, James Lynch, John McCarthy, Thomas McCarthy, Peter McGuire, Michael McQuade, Francis Murphy, Owen O'Neil, Edward White.

Their are many causes for the remarkable growth of the Catholic Church in Central New York. It was chiefly the Irish immigrants who dug the Erie Canal, which was begun 4 July, 1817, almost the exact date of the organization of the first church in the diocese. The salt springs of Syracuse discovered by Father Le Moyne, in the missionary period, added much to the wealth of these parts and attracted many. When through tariff reduction this investment became no longer profitable, extensive cotton and woolen mills, foundries and factories of all kinds, were established. Another cause which contributed to the growth as well as to the cosmopolitan character of the people, was the coming of various nationalities at different periods. The Germans began to come in small numbers, soon after the erection of the first church (1820). According to the official records, Rev. John Lewis Wariath was placed in charge of these immigrants as early as 1837. The Italian immigration began with the construction of the West Shore Railroad in the early eighties. The Poles began to locate in the diocese about a quarter of a century ago. They have now large and flourishing parishes, churches, and schools in various parts of the diocese. The Lithuanians are, as yet, comparatively few in number. They have fine property, a temporary church, a resident priest in Utica, and give evidence of rapid progress. The Syrians began to come about a decade ago. They are found chiefly in Syracuse and Utica. In the latter city, they have a handsome church, and a resident priest. They worship according to the Syro-Maronite Rite. The Slovaks began coming to the diocese only within the last few years. They are of the Latin and the Greek Rite, and are found principally in Syracuse and in Binghamton. In the latter city they have a resident priest and a flourishing parish.

Religious Communities

Another important factor in the upbuilding of the diocese, was the work of the different religious communities devoted to education and charity. The Franciscan Fathers of the Order of Minor Conventuals came in 1859. The mother-house of the Order of the Minor Conventuals in the United States is located in Syracuse. The Christian Brothers have been labouring in the diocese for more than half a century. They have a large and flourishing academy in Syracuse. Assumption Academy is the academic department for boys of the Utica Catholic Academy. The Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul (Emmitsburg) for more than three-quarters of a century have laboured in Utica, and for most of that time in Syracuse, caring for the orphans and building up their schools. The Sisters of St. Joseph, from St. Louis, Mo., have an academy for young ladies in Binghamton and have charge of many parochial schools. The Sisters of the Holy Name have an academy for young ladies at Rome. The Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis have charge of hospitals in Syracuse and Utica.

Statistics for 1911 are: priests, regular 16, secular 115; parish churches, 75; mission churches, 34; chapels, 35; parochial schools, 25; parochial high schools, 4; academies, 4; orphan asylums, 5; maternity hospital, 1; infant asylums, 2; hospitals, 3. In the various religious orders there are: brothers, 33; sisters, 330; lay teachers, 8. The pupils in Catholic schools number 10,000. The Catholic population includes, English-speaking, 95,000; Italians, 25,000; Germans, 15,000; Poles, 120,000; Lithuanians, 1000; Slavs (Latin and Greek), 2000; Bohemians, 100; French, 2000; Syrians, 1000.

Martin, Life of Father Jogues (New York, 1896); Dongan, Reports in Documents relating to the Colonial History of New York City, III (Albany, 1853); ed. Thwaites, Jesuit Relations (Cleveland, 1896-1901): O'Callaghan, Documentary History of the State of New York, (Albany, 1849-51); Shea, History of the Catholic Church in the United States (New York, 1886-92); Memorial History of the City of Syracuse (Syracuse, 1891); Bannon, Pioneer Irish of Onondaga (Syracuse, 1911); Cookinham, History of Oneida County (Utica, 1912); Bugg, Memoirs of Utica (Utica, 1884); Campbell, Pioneer Priests of North America (New York, 1908); Hewitt, History of the Diocese of Syracuse (Syracuse, 1909); Lynch, A Page of Church History in New York (Utica, 1903); U.S. Cath. Hist. Society, Historical Records and Studies (New York, April, 1909-Feb., 1911); Farley, History of St. Patrick's Cathedral (New York, 1908); Zwierlein, Religion in New Netherland (Rochester, 1910); Bayley, A Brief Sketch of the Early History of the Catholic Church in the Island of New York (New York, 1870); Griffis, The Story of New Netherland (New York, 1909); Diefendorff, The Historic Mohawk (New York, 1910).

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