About Eastern Catholics, their Orthodox counterparts and those who have remained in UNION with the Holy Father
Thursday, July 28, 2011
We all know Sui Iuris Eastern Catholic Churches has its trace on their sister Churches in the Orthodoxy of whom they decide to break to be once more united with the Holy Mother Church. But it is known that there is still a strife between the Eastern Catholic Churches alongside with their Sister counterparts. Below is the Sui Iuris Eastern Catholic Churches and their Sister Churches from other Eastern Christian Churches
- Albanian Byzantine Catholic Church (Albanian Orthodox Church)
- Bulgarian Byzantine Catholic Church (Bulgarian Orthodox Church)
- Greek Catholic Church (Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople/Orthodox Church of Greece)
- Melkite Catholic Church (Antiochian Orthodox Church)
- Croatian Byzantine Catholic Church (Serbian Orthodox Church)
- Ruthenian Byzantine Catholic Church (Americo-Carpatho Orthodox Church)
- Slovak Greek Catholic Church (Czech and Slovak Orthodox Church)
- Macedonian Byzantine Catholic Church (Macedonian Orthodox Church)
- Romanian Greek Catholic Church (Romanian Orthodox)
- Russian Byzantine Catholic Church (Russian Orthodox Church)
- Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyiv Patriarchate or Moscow Patriachate)
- Armenian Catholic Church (Armenian Apostolic Church)
- Chaldean Catholic Church (Assyrian Church of the East)
- Coptic Catholic Church (Coptic Church)
- Ethiopian Catholic Church (Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church)
- Syrian Catholic Church (Syriac Orthodox Church)
- Syro-Malankara Catholic Church (Malankara Jacobite Orthodox Church)
With the Exemption of the Maronite Catholics, Syro Malabar Catholics, The Italo Albanese Byzantine Catholics of Italy and the Hungarian Byzantine Catholics, because the original Ancestors are Hungarian Protestants, not Orthodox, and some Orthodox Christians who have choose Byzantine Rite under the then Greek Catholic Eparchy of Presov, now Slovak Greek Catholic Metropolia, most of the Sui Iuris Churches has Counterparts from other Churches.
Speaking of those who have remained in UNIA, of which they claimed not separating at all with the Supreme Pontiff, it is already questioned the claimed of the Maronites Catholic and the Syro Malabar Catholic because of some Circumstances that make their claims being put into debate by Church Historians. But it is a fact that the most genuine of these claims is the Italo Greek Catholic Church, which has never separated even at the time of the Great Schism of 1054. Though i have say anything here, it does not mean that i have say already everything i have known, but i have just write here everything i learned not just on reading but on talking on Eastern Catholics, how do i understand and appreciate their Ancient Heritage of Liturgical Tradition, Devotion and Theological patrimony. There will be more Articles regarding Eastern Catholicism soon.
PRESVJATA BOGORODICE, SPASI NAS (MOST HOLY THEOTOKOS, PROTECT US)
GOSPODE ISUSE KRISTI, SINE BOZJI, POMILUJ GRJESNOGA
(LORD JESUS CHRIST, SON OF GOD, HAVE MERCY ON ME A SINNER)
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