Diocese of Syracuse Diœcesis Syracusensis | |
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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 | Francis |
Bishop | Douglas Lucia |
Metropolitan Archbishop | Timothy M. Dolan |
Vicar General | John J. Kurgan |
Bishops emeritus | Robert J. Cunningham |
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syracusediocese |
The Diocese of Syracuse (Latin: Diœcesis Syracusensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory, or 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 in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of New York.
On June 4, 2019, Pope Francis appointed Douglas Lucia to be the next Bishop of Syracuse.[3] Lucia was consecrated to the episcopacy and installed as bishop on August 8, 2019.