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  1. The Eastern Catholic Churches or Oriental Catholic Churches, also called the Eastern-Rite Catholic Churches, Eastern Rite Catholicism, or simply the Eastern Churches, [a] are 23 Eastern Christian autonomous ( sui iuris) particular churches of the Catholic Church, in full communion with the Pope in Rome. Although they are distinct theologically ...

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    Easter, [nb 1] also called Pascha [nb 2] ( Aramaic, Greek, Latin) or Resurrection Sunday, [nb 3] is a Christian festival and cultural holiday commemorating the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, described in the New Testament as having occurred on the third day of his burial following his crucifixion by the Romans at Calvary c. 30 AD.

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  4. Eastern Catholic churches. The Eastern Catholic Churches are autocephalous Christian churches. They recognize the Bishop of Rome as their spiritual leader, like other Catholics .They differ on ideas as how a mass should be organised, or which prayers are more important than others. In total there are 23 such churches, the probably best known ...

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    Eastern Christians do not all share the same religious traditions, but many do share cultural traditions. Christianity divided itself in the East during its early centuries both within and outside of the Roman Empire in disputes about Christology and fundamental theology, as well as through national divisions (Roman, Persian, etc.). It would be man...

    Ecumenical dialogue since the 1964 meeting between Pope Paul VI and Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras I has awoken the nearly 1,000-year hopes for Christian unity. Since the lifting of excommunications during the Paul VI and Athenagoras I meeting in Jerusalem there have been other significant meetings between Popes and Ecumenical Patriarchs of Constan...

    There has been a significant Christian migration in the 20th century from the Near East. Fifteen hundred years ago Christians were the majority population in today's Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine and Egypt. In 1914 Christians constituted 25% of the population of the Ottoman Empire. At the beginning of the 21st century Christians c...

    Scholars and intellectuals agree Christians have made significant contributions to Arab and Islamic civilization since the introduction of Islam, and they have had a significant impact contributing the culture of the Middle East and North Africa and other areas. Byzantine science played an important and crucial role in the transmission of classical...

    Angold, Michael, ed. (2006). The Cambridge History of Christianity. Vol. 5, Eastern Christianity. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-81113-2.
    Julius Assfalg (ed.), Kleines Wörterbuch des christlichen Orients, Wiesbaden 1975.
    FitzGerald, Thomas (2007). "Eastern Christianity in the United States". The Blackwell Companion to Eastern Christianity. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing. pp. 269–279. ISBN 978-0470766392 – via Goo...
    Jenkins, Philip (2008). The Lost History Of Christianity. New York: HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-06-147281-7.
    Eastern Catholics Archived 2012-02-04 at the Wayback Machine Information concerning Christians of Eastern rites who are in communion with, and under the jurisdiction of, the Pope, the Bishop of Rome.
    The Greek Orthodox Church in Canada Archived 2019-11-05 at the Wayback Machine
  5. Terminology [ edit] While the Eastern Catholic Churches are autonomous particular churches that practice multiple liturgical rites, they have been collectively addressed as "Eastern-rite Churches" to distinguish themselves from the Latin Church and its Latin liturgical rites. [2] The term "rite" has also been used to mean sui iuris particular ...

  6. The term Eastern Catholic Churches refers to 23 of the 24 autonomous particular Churches in communion with the Bishop of Rome. They follow different Eastern Christian liturgical traditions: Alexandrian, Antiochian, Armenian, Byzantine and Chaldean. [7] Canonically, each Eastern Catholic Church is sui iuris or autonomous with respect to other ...

  7. Eastern Catholics, numbering approximately 18 million among the 1.3 billion Catholics worldwide, stand as a testament to the Church’s universality and diversity. Etymological and Typological Analysis. The term ‘Eastern Catholic Churches’ finds its roots in the geographical and cultural context.

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