Eastern Catholic Churches

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The Eastern Catholic Churches are a group of self-governing, Eastern-rite Christian churches in full communion with the Pope while preserving their own liturgical, theological, and spiritual traditions.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Eastern Christian churches
communion of particular churches
part of the Catholic Church
sui iuris churches
acknowledges primacy of the Pope
affirmedByDocument Orientalium Ecclesiarum
differsFrom Latin Rite
surface form: Latin Church in liturgical expression
geographicalDistribution Eastern Europe
Horn of Africa
India
Middle East
diaspora communities worldwide
governedBy Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches
hasHierarchy major archbishops
metropolitans sui iuris
patriarchs
hasLiturgicalTradition Coptic Rite
surface form: Alexandrian Rite

Syriac Rite
surface form: Antiochian Rite

Armenian Rite
Byzantine Rite
Syriac Rite
surface form: Chaldean Rite

Syriac Rite
surface form: East Syriac Rite

Ethiopian Rite
surface form: Geʽez Rite

Syriac Rite
surface form: West Syriac Rite
hasMajorChurch Albanian Greek Catholic Church
Armenian Catholic Church
Belarusian Greek Catholic Church
Bulgarian Greek Catholic Church
Chaldean Catholic Church
Coptic Catholic Church
Eritrean Catholic Church
Ethiopian Catholic Church
Georgian Catholic Church
Greek Byzantine Catholic Church
Hungarian Greek Catholic Church
Italo-Albanian Catholic Church
Macedonian Greek Catholic Church
Maronite Christianity
surface form: Maronite Church

Melkite Greek Catholic
surface form: Melkite Greek Catholic Church

Romanian Greek Catholic Church
Russian Greek Catholic Church
Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church
Slovak Greek Catholic Church
Syriac Catholic Church
Syro-Malabar Catholic Church
Syro-Malankara Catholic Church
Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
hasNumberOfChurches 23
hasSpiritualTradition Eastern Christian spirituality
hasTheologicalTradition Eastern Christian theology
inCommunionWith Holy See
Pope
surface form: Pope of Rome
preserves own canon law traditions
own ecclesiastical disciplines
own liturgical heritage
recognizedBy Second Vatican Council
religiousAffiliation Roman Catholicism
surface form: Catholic Church
sharesDogmaWith Latin Rite
surface form: Latin Church

Roman Catholicism
surface form: Roman Catholic Church
teaches same Catholic faith as Latin Church
usesClericalDiscipline married priesthood (in many churches)
usesLanguage Arabic
Armenian
Church Slavonic
Coptic
Geʽez
Greek
Syriac
various vernacular languages

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Michel Dimitri Chalhoub religion Eastern Catholic Churches
this entity surface form: Greek Catholicism
Triodion usedIn Eastern Catholic Churches
this entity surface form: Eastern Catholic Churches of Byzantine tradition
Vespers usedIn Eastern Catholic Churches
Orientalium Ecclesiarum subject Eastern Catholic Churches
Orientalium Ecclesiarum encourages Eastern Catholic Churches
this entity surface form: Eastern Catholics to remain faithful to their own traditions
Orientalium Ecclesiarum concerns Eastern Catholic Churches
this entity surface form: sui iuris Eastern Catholic Churches
Menaion usedIn Eastern Catholic Churches
this entity surface form: Eastern Catholic Churches of Byzantine tradition
Apostles' Fast observedBy Eastern Catholic Churches
Aeiparthenos (Ever-Virgin) veneratedIn Eastern Catholic Churches
subject surface form: Aeiparthenos
Octoechos usedIn Eastern Catholic Churches
this entity surface form: Eastern Catholic Churches of Byzantine tradition
Typikon usedBy Eastern Catholic Churches
this entity surface form: Eastern Catholic Churches of Byzantine tradition
Akathist religiousTradition Eastern Catholic Churches
Maronite Christianity canonicalStatus Eastern Catholic Churches
this entity surface form: sui iuris Eastern Catholic Church
Julia Warhola religion Eastern Catholic Churches
this entity surface form: Eastern Catholicism
Volyn Oblast hasMajorReligion Eastern Catholic Churches
this entity surface form: Greek Catholicism
Rusyns religion Eastern Catholic Churches
this entity surface form: Eastern Catholicism
Slovaks religion Eastern Catholic Churches
this entity surface form: Greek Catholicism
Feast of the Theophany celebratedIn Eastern Catholic Churches
Ge'ez religiousTradition Eastern Catholic Churches
this entity surface form: Eastern Catholicism
Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches regulates Eastern Catholic Churches
Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches appliesTo Eastern Catholic Churches
this entity surface form: sui iuris Eastern Catholic Churches
Lebanese people religion Eastern Catholic Churches
this entity surface form: Greek Catholic Christianity
IHS monogram usedBy Eastern Catholic Churches
Saint Mary veneratedIn Eastern Catholic Churches
Feast of the Nativity of the Theotokos observedBy Eastern Catholic Churches
this entity surface form: Eastern Catholic Christians
hesychast tradition practicedIn Eastern Catholic Churches
Slovak Greek Catholic Church partOf Eastern Catholic Churches
Suprema Paenitentiaria Apostolica exercisesAuthorityIn Eastern Catholic Churches
Major Penitentiary hasAuthorityIn Eastern Catholic Churches
this entity surface form: Eastern Catholic Churches (in matters reserved to the Holy See)
Bulgarian Greek Catholic Church denominationalFamily Eastern Catholic Churches
this entity surface form: Eastern Catholicism
1917 Code of Canon Law doesNotApplyTo Eastern Catholic Churches
Albanian Greek Catholic Church sharesByzantineHeritageWith Eastern Catholic Churches
this entity surface form: Greek Catholic Churches
Belarusian Greek Catholic Church ecclesiasticalTradition Eastern Catholic Churches
this entity surface form: Eastern Catholic
Hungarian Greek Catholic Church isPartOf Eastern Catholic Churches
Andrew the Apostle veneratedIn Eastern Catholic Churches
Penance practicedBy Eastern Catholic Churches
Canon 1 authorityIn Eastern Catholic Churches
Little Entrance associatedWith Eastern Catholic Churches
this entity surface form: Eastern Catholic Churches of Byzantine tradition
Epiclesis usedBy Eastern Catholic Churches
Great Entrance with presanctified Gifts usedIn Eastern Catholic Churches
this entity surface form: Eastern Catholic Churches of Byzantine tradition
Meletius of Antioch veneratedIn Eastern Catholic Churches
Armenian Catholic Church ecclesiasticalTradition Eastern Catholic Churches
this entity surface form: Eastern Catholic
Eastern Christianity includes Eastern Catholic Churches
Lwów Voivodeship religion Eastern Catholic Churches
this entity surface form: Greek Catholicism
Syro-Malabar Catholic Church isPartOf Eastern Catholic Churches
this entity surface form: Communion of Eastern Catholic Churches
Papacy exercisesAuthorityOver Eastern Catholic Churches
St Mary veneratedIn Eastern Catholic Churches
Paschal troparion usedIn Eastern Catholic Churches
this entity surface form: Eastern Catholic Churches of Byzantine tradition