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The Eastern Catholic Churches or Oriental Catholic Churches, also called the Eastern-Rite Catholic Churches, Eastern Rite Catholicism, or simply the Eastern Churches, are 23 Eastern Christian autonomous particular churches of the Catholic Church, in full communion with the Pope in Rome.
The Eastern Catholic Churches are in full communion of faith and of acceptance of authority of the see of Rome, but retain their distinctive liturgical rites, laws and customs, traditional devotions and have their own theological emphases.
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All recognize the authority of the papacy, but within the parameters of a shared creed, each church has its own forms of liturgy, devotions, and traditions. Each has its own hierarchy under a patriarch or archbishop, and distinctive Eastern legal canons.
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Most Eastern Catholic Churches arose when a group within an ancient Christian Church that was in disagreement with the see of Rome chose to enter into full communion with that see. However, the Maronite Church claims never to have been separated from Rome, and has no counterpart Orthodox Church out of communion with the Pope. The Italo-Albanian Cat...
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. Canonically, each Eastern Catholic Church is sui iuris or autonomous with respect to other Catholic C...
The Holy See's Annuario Pontificio gives the following list of Eastern Catholic Churches and of countries in which they possess an episcopal ecclesiastical jurisdiction (date of union or foundation in parenthesis): 1. Alexandrian liturgical tradition 1.1. Coptic Catholic Church (patriarchate): Egypt (1741) 1.2. Ethiopian Catholic Church (metropolia...
Eastern and Western Christian churches have different traditions concerning clerical celibacy. These differences and the resulting controversies have played a role in the relationship between the two groups in some Western countries. Most Eastern Churches distinguish between "monastic" and "non-monastic" clergy. Monastics do not necessarily live as...
Beal, John P. and James A. Coriden. New Commentary on the Code of Canon Law: Study Edition. Paulist Press 2002. ISBN 978-0809140664Betts, Robert B. Christians in the Arab East. Westminster John Knox Press, 1981. ISBN 978-0804207966Binns, John. An Introduction to the Christian Orthodox Churches (Introduction to Religion). Cambridge University Press, 2002. ISBN 978-0521661409Faulk, Edward. 101 Questions & Answers on Eastern Catholic Churches. New York: Paulist Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0809144419May 7, 2016 · An Introduction to the Eastern Catholic Churches. Nicholas LaBanca | 05/07/2016. Photo By: Flickr/George Pankewytch. If you are reading this, chances are that you are a Roman Catholic. Or, to put it more officially, you are a Catholic of the Roman Rite within the Latin Catholic Church. Sounds a little confusing, doesn’t it?
The Eastern Catholic Churches, also known as the Eastern-Rite Catholic Churches or Oriental Catholic Churches, represent a unique and integral component of the Catholic Church.
