Known also by the Latin name of Somonides, b. at Lemberg, 1558; d. 1629.

Born at Tarnow, 1835; d. at Cracow, 1883.

Born at Szentivàn, 20 October, 1633; died at Nagy-Szombàt (Tyrnau), 5 March, 1708. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1653, and was professor of Scripture for five years at Vienna and Nagy-Szombàt, professor of mathematics and philosophy for nine years, and professor of canon law and theology for seven years.

Vicariate Apostolic of Southern Sze-Ch'wan.

Vicariate Apostolic of North-western Sze-Ch'wan.

The mission of Eastern Sze-ch'wan was separated from North-western Sze-ch'wan and erected in a Vicariate Apostolic in 1856.

Diocese in Hungary, suffragan of Eger, from which it was formed, by King Francis I, at the same time as the See of Kassa.

Born in the Diocese of Raab, Hungary, 1541; died at Olmütz in 1612.

The rite used by the Jacobite sect in Syria and by the Catholic Syrians is in its origin simply the old rite of Antioch in the Syriac language.

This rite is used by the Nestorians and also by Eastern Catholic bodies -- in Syria, Mesopotamia, Persia, and Malabar -- who have separated from them.

Syriac is the important branch of the group of Semitic languages known as Aramaic.

To the general consideration set forth in the article hymnody and hymnology must be added some bearing particularly on the structure and liturgical use of hymns (madrashe), exclusive of poetical homilies or discourses (mimre), which belong to the narrative and epic class, while the hymns are lyrical.

A country in Western Asia, which in modern times comprises all that region bounded on the north by the highlands of the Taurus, on the south by Egypt, on the east by Mesopotamia and the Arabia Desert, and on the west by the Mediterranean.

The Diocese of Syracuse, in the State of New York.

Archdiocese of Syracuse (Syracusana) in Sicily.

A Latin diocese, suffragan of Naxos, comprising the Island of Syra of the Cyclades in the Ægean Sea.

Middlesex, England, founded in 1415 by King Henry V at his manor of Isleworth.

A canonical collection made in 1335 by Blastares, a Greek monk about whose life nothing certain is known.

The name given since Griesbach's time (about 1790) to the first three canonical Gospels.

According to the recent canon law, national councils are the deliberating assemblies at which all the bishops of a nation are convoked by the patriarch or primate (Cf. Bened. XIV, "De Synodo", I, i), but, in order to include the ancient national synods, it would be more correct to say a legitimate assemblage of the episcopate of a nation, the decisions of which are valid for an entire national Church.

A general term for ecclesiastical gatherings under hierarchical authority, for the discussion and decision of matters relating to faith, morals, or discipline. It corresponds to the Latin word concilium.

Titular metropolis in Phrygia Salutaris. Synnada is said to have been founded by Acamas who went to Phrygia after the Trojan war and took some Macedonian colonists.

Bishop of Ptolomais, neo-Platonist, date of birth uncertain; d. about 414.