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 are listed below:
- Coptic Catholic Church
- Maronite Church
- Armenian Catholic Church
- Chaldean Catholic Church
- Syro-Malabar Catholic Church
- Syro-Malankara Catholic Church
Eastern Catholic Churches Media
Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
Monastery of Qozhaya in Kadisha Valley, Lebanon, the historical stronghold of the Maronite Church
Pope Leo XIII issued the apostolic constitution Orientalium dignitas. Photogram of the 1896 film Sua Santità papa Leone XIII, the first time a Pope appeared on film.
Pope Paul VI presiding over the introductory ingress of the Second Vatican Council, flanked by Camerlengo Benedetto Aloisi Masella and two Papal gentlemen
Bishops, including Eastern Catholic ones as seen in their distinctive vestments, assisting at the Second Vatican Council
Inside a Syriac Catholic Church building in Damascus, the capital city of Syria
Pope Pius XI in an audience with Demetrius I Qadi, Patriarch of Antioch and All the East and other bishops of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church in 1923
Patriarch Bechara Boutros al-Rahi is the head of the Maronite Church, and also a Cardinal.
Syro-Malankara Catholic Major Archbishop-Catholicos celebrating Qurbono Qadisho in West Syriac
A bishop celebrating Divine Liturgy in a Greek-Catholic church in Prešov, eastern Slovakia. Another bishop stands to his immediate right (white omophorion visible), and two married priests stand to the side (facing camera).
Related pages
Other websites
General
- Orientale Lumen - Apostolic Letter of Pope John Paul II on the Eastern Churches
- Codex Canonum Ecclesiarum Orientalium - original text of the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches, with concordance
- Code of canons of the Oriental Churchs - defective English translation, with concordance
- Instruction for Applying the Liturgical Prescriptions of the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches Archived 2009-04-25 at the Wayback Machine - Instruction by Congregation for the Eastern Churches
- What All Catholics Should Know About Eastern Catholic Churches Archived 2011-05-17 at the Wayback Machine
- Eastern Catholics in the United States of America - adapted from a similar publication by the Australian Catholic Bishops' Conference
Individual Churches
- Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarchate Archived 2007-02-11 at the Wayback Machine—Official Website
- Maronite Patriarchate Archived 2016-12-29 at the Wayback Machine—Official Website
- Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church Archived 2008-07-30 at the Wayback Machine—Official Website
- Syro Malankara Catholic Church International Homepage Archived 2008-07-25 at the Wayback Machine—Official Website
- Syro-Malankara Catholic Church
- Byzantine Catholic Church in America—Information and Messageboards
- Byzantine Catholic Archeparchy of Pittsburgh—Official Website
