Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches

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The Byzantine Catholic Metropolia of Pittsburgh is a Byzantine Rite autonomous jurisdiction of the Roman Catholic Church, originally serving members of the Ruthenian Catholic Church and their decendants in the United States. The Metropolia itself is composed of the Archeparchy of Pittsburgh (60,200 faithful, 84 parishes, 83 priests) and the Eparchies of Parma (12,401 faithful, 37 parishes, 38 priests), Passaic (24,031 faithful, 89 parishes, 84 priests) and Van Nuys (2,849 faithful, 19 parishes, 25 priests). Although the Ruthenians rem ...

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Church documents such as the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches apply the Latin term "sui iuris" to the particular Churches or rites that together compose the Roman Catholic Church. By far the largest of these "sui iuris" or autonomous Churches is that known as the Latin Church or the Latin Rite. Over this particular Church the Pope exercises, as well as his papal authority, the authority that in other particular Churches belongs to a Patriarch. He is therefore referred to also as Patriarch of the West[1]. The other particular Chu ...

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Care must be taken to distinguish between the two meanings of the word "rite". The one Byzantine liturgical rite is used by several distinct Eastern Churches or Rites. On the other hand, in the Western Church or Latin Rite (in the sense of particular Church), more than one Latin liturgical rite have been and are used. They include the Ambrosian and the Mozarabic rites, as well as the Roman rite. By extension, some use the term "rite" (in its liturgical sense) to refer to one particul ...

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The term Uniat or Uniate is applied to Eastern Catholics primarily by Eastern Orthodox, who sometimes give it pejorative overtones, but was also historically used, though less frequently, by Catholics of both Eastern and Western liturgical traditions. Present-day Eastern Catholics generally regard the term negatively, and so its use is often avoided, especially in ecumenical contexts. According to Eastern Orthodox Professor John Erickson of St Vladimir's Theological Seminary, "The term 'uniate' itself, once used with pride in t ...

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Eastern Rite, Eastern Rite - Eastern and Western Latin Catholics, Eastern Rite - Historical background, Eastern Rite - The term Uniat[e], Eastern Rite - List of Eastern Catholic Churches

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Communion between Christian Churches has been broken over matters of faith, when each side accused the other of heresy or departure from the true faith (orthodoxy). Communion has been broken also because of disputes that do not involve matters of faith, as when there is disagreement about questions of authority or the legitimacy of the election of a particular bishop. In these latter cases, each side accuses the other of schism, but not of heresy. Major breaches of communion: The Churches that accepted the teaching of the ...

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Eastern Rite, Eastern Rite - Eastern and Western Latin Catholics, Eastern Rite - Historical background, Eastern Rite - The term Uniat[e], Eastern Rite - List of Eastern Catholic Churches

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