RUSSIAN RELIEF COMMITTEE. See JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ASSN.
SAINT LAWRENCE PARISH was founded in 1901 in the NEWBURGH area of Cleveland by Father Francis Kerze.
SAINT VINCENT CHARITY HOSPITAL AND HEALTH CENTER, a 492-bed not-for-profit general acute-care hospital (located at 2351 E. 22nd St.), opened on 10 Oct. 1865 as Cleveland's first permanent general hospital. Bp.
SAN JUAN BAUTISTA, Cleveland's first Roman Catholic parish for the HISPANIC COMMUNITY, was established on 15 Oct. 1975, but originated in the Hispanic Apostolate of the Cleveland Diocese. A Catholic ministry to the Hispanic-speaking was begun in 1952, with Msgr. THOMAS SEBIAN as its first director.
The SCHAUFFLER COLLEGE OF RELIGIOUS AND SOCIAL WORK (23 Jan. 1886-1957), located at 5115 Fowler Dr. SE near Broadway, was an interracial, international, and interdenominational undergraduate college, founded as the Slavic Bible Readers' Home (School) to train young Slavic women as Christian missionaries to the Czech community of Cleveland.
SCHAUFFLER, HENRY A. (7 April 1837-15 Feb. 1905), missionary to CZECHS in Cleveland, founded the Slavic Bible Readers' Home (School) (see SCHAUFFLER COLLEGE OF RELIGIOUS AND SOCIAL WORK) for Slavic WOMEN in 1886.
SCHIFFLEIN CHRISTI, formed in 1834, was the first Evangelical Protestant congregation in Cleveland and spawned the first GERMAN LUTHERAN church in the city. According to tradition, Zum Schifflein Christi (the Little Boat of Christ) was begun by German sailors who had promised to found a church if saved from a storm.
SCHREMBS, JOSEPH (12 Mar. 1866-2 Nov. 1945), fifth bishop of the Diocese of Cleveland, was born in Wutzlhofen (Regensburg), Germany to Geo. and Mary Gess Schrembs. He came to America at 11 and studied at St. Vincent Archabbey in Latrobe, Pa. before teaching in Louisville, Ky.
SCHWAN, HEINRICH CHRISTIAN (5 April 1819-29 May 1905) presided over the growth of local Lutheranism (see LUTHERANS) as a Cleveland pastor and later as a synod official. The son of Pastor G.H.C. and Charlotte Wyneken Schwan, he was born in Horneburg, Germany, and in 1842 graduated from Jena University.
The SCRANTON ROAD BAPTIST CHURCH was begun in 1869 as a Free Will Baptist mission and despite many changes has endured. Luther Doolittle, one of the founders, raised money door to door and among friends for the first church at Putnam (E. 38th) and Scovill. A serious split hindered the growth of the parish during the first pastor's tenure, and a new leader was chosen.
SEBIAN, MONSIGNOR THOMAS B. (22 July 1921-11 Oct. 1986), a pioneer in ministry to Cleveland's HISPANIC COMMUNITY, founded and directed the Spanish Catholic Mission Center of the Diocese of Cleveland (see CATHOLICS, ROMAN) at the Conversion of St.
SETTLE, REV. DR. GLENN THOMAS (10 Oct. 1894-16 July 1967) was the pastor of GETHSEMANE BAPTIST CHURCH who organized and directed the famed African-American WINGS OVER JORDAN CHOIR. Born in Reidsville, North Carolina to Rubin and Mary Settle, he moved with his family to Uniontown, Pa.
The SEVENTH NATIONAL EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS, held in Cleveland 23-27 Sept. 1935, drew 500,000 Catholics from around the nation. The congress was one of a series of such meetings held by the Roman Catholic Church to increase devotion to Jesus Christ present in the Eucharist. Bp.
SHAKER-LEE SYNAGOGUE grew out of a merger of two earlier Jewish congregations. Ohel Jacob was founded by Russian and Sephardic Jews in lower Woodland in 1915. In 1926 the congregation built a synagogue in Kinsman, where it remained until 1956, when it purchased a lot on Lee Rd. in SHAKER HTS.
SHAKERS. See NORTH UNION SHAKER COMMUNITY.
SHERITH ISRAEL. See SHERITH JACOB ISRAEL CONGREGATION.
SHERITH JACOB ISRAEL CONGREGATION (1899-1970), one of Cleveland's principal Orthodox Jewish congregations during the 1920s and 1930s, was established as Sherith Jacob Congregation on 20 October 1899 by 18 Jewish Hungarians who lived near East 20th Street and Orange Avenue. Services were initially held at Bernstein Hall on Perry and Orange streets.
SHILOH BAPTIST CHURCH is the oldest congregation of black BAPTISTS in Cleveland and second only to
The LAURA AND ALVIN SIEGAL COLLEGE OF JUDAIC STUDIES (formerly Cleveland College of Jewish Studies) is a non-denominational institution of higher Jewish learning supported by the Jewish community of Cleveland, Ohio. Accredited by the state of Ohio, the college offered degree programs in Judaic studies at the undergraduate and graduate level and lifelong learning programs for adults on Jewish topics.
SILVER, ABBA HILLEL (28 Jan. 1893-28 Nov. 1963), religious leader, Zionist, and social-welfare activist, was born Abraham Silver in Neinstadt, Schirwindt, Lithuania to Moses and Dinah Seaman Silver. His father, grandfather, and great-grandfather had all been rabbis. Silver and his family emigrated to America and settled in New York City in 1902.
The SLOVAK INSTITUTE, a resource center (archives and library) for the study of Slovak culture and literature, was founded 15 Sept. 1952 at ST. ANDREW ABBEY on East Blvd. (now Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr.) in Cleveland.
SMITH, FRANK A. (1 May 1894-8 Aug. 1992) was a long-time pastor in the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church and a charter member of Lane C.M.E. Church in Cleveland.
One of eight children of the Reverend Anthony T. and Caroline Smith, Frank was born in Monticello, GA, where he early learned the role of the circuit preacher.
SMITH, HERALD LEONYDUS (20 April 1909-20 July 1992), printer, pastor, and organist, edited and published The Herald (1959-80) for members of the African Methodist Episcopal denomination and served as assistant minister at ST.
SOUTH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (1892-1931), at 3166 Scranton and Prame streets, began in the fall of 1890 (incorporated 4 Mar. 1892) as a mission Sunday school organized by Rev. Dr. William Gaston, pastor of NORTH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. In October the PRESBYTERIAN UNION rented a hall for the Sunday school and engaged Rev.
