Q: WHAT ARE EASTERN CATHOLIC CHURCHES? A: "The Eastern Catholic Churches are autonomous, self-governing (in Latin, sui iuris) particular churches in full communion with the Pope of Rome along with the Latin Church. They are referred in Canon Law as Ritual Churches, together they compose the worldwide Catholic Church. They preserve centuries-old eastern liturgical, devotional and theological traditions, shared in most cases with the various Eastern and Oriental Orthodox churches they were once associated with, while a few have never been out of communion with the Pope, a claim made, for instance, by the Maronites. Although the churches most of them were formerly associated with are not all in communion with one another, the Eastern Catholic Churches of whatever tradition are all in communion with each other and with the Latin or Western church. However, they vary in theological emphasis, forms of liturgical worship and popular piety, canonical discipline and terminology. BYZANTINE (CONSTANTINOPOLITAN) Albanian Catholic Church Bulgarian Catholic Church Croatian, Serbain and Montenegran Catholic Church Greek Catholic Church Hungarian Catholic Church Italo-Albanian Catholic Church Macedonian Catholic Church Melkite Catholic Church Romanian Catholic Church Ruthenian Catholic Church Slovakian Catholic Church Ukrainian Catholic Church ANTIOCHIAN (WEST SYRIAC) Maronite Catholic Church Syrian Catholic Church Syro-Malankara Catholic Church CHALDEAN (EAST SYRIAC) Chaldean Catholic Church Syro-Malabar Catholic Church ARMENIAN Armenian Catholic Church ALEXANDRIAN Coptic Catholic Church Ethiopian and Eritrean Catholic Church
Posted on: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 06:02:35 +0000
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