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Eastern Rite

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Eastern Rite: Encyclopedia - Eastern Rite

History of Christianity Jesus of Nazareth The Apostles Ecumenical councils Great Schism The Crusades Reformation The Trinity God the Father Christ the Son The Holy Spirit The Bible Old Testament New Testament Apocrypha The Gospels Ten Commandments Sermon on the Mount Christian theology Salvation · Grace Christian worship Christian Church Catholicism Orthodox Christianity Protestantism Christian denominations ...

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Eastern Rite: Encyclopedia II - Eastern Rite - Eastern and Western Latin Catholics

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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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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Eastern Rite: Encyclopedia - List of Coptic Catholic Patriarchs of Alexandria

This is a list of Coptic Catholic Patriarchs of Alexandria. The head the Eastern Uniate Coptic Catholic Church. In 1741 an apostolic vicariate was established for Alexandria for Coptic Christians wanting to unite with Rome. This later on was elevated into a patriarchate in 1895. List of Coptic Catholic Patriarchs of Alexandria - List of Coptic Catholic Patriarchs of Alexandria. Kyrillos II Macaire 1895-1908 Maximos Sedfaoui (locum tenens) Markos II 1 ...

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Eastern Rite: Encyclopedia - Eastern Orthodox Church organization

This article treats the manner in which the Eastern Orthodox Churches are organized, rather than the doctrines, traditions, practices, or other aspects of Eastern Orthodoxy. The Eastern Orthodox Church is a communion comprising the collective body of fourteen or fifteen separate autocephalous hierarchical churches that recognize each other as "canonical" Orthodox Christian churches (there is a ...

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Eastern Rite: Encyclopedia - Latin Rite

Latin Rite, in the singular and accompanied, in English, by the definite article ("The Latin Rite"), is a term by which documents of the Catholic Church designate the particular Church, distinct from the Eastern Rite Churches, that developed in western Europe and northern Africa, where Latin was the language of education and culture. The Latin Church (again in the singular) is an alternative term, used, for instance, in the opening canon of both the 1917 and t ...

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Eastern Rite: Encyclopedia II - Mass liturgy - Structure of the present-day Roman-rite Mass

Within the fixed structure outlined below, the Scripture readings and the text of the three prayers known as the collect, the prayer over the gifts, and the postcommunion prayer varies each day. Mass liturgy - Introductory rites. After an entrance hymn or the recitation of an antiphon, Mass begins with the large sign of the cross (the fingertips of the right hand touch in sequence the forehead, breast, left shoulder and right shoulder) to the accompaniment of the Trinitarian formula, "In the name of the Fa ...

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Mass liturgy, Mass liturgy - The Mass in Roman Catholicism, Mass liturgy - Texts used in the Roman rite of Mass, Mass liturgy - Structure of the present-day Roman-rite Mass, Mass liturgy - Introductory rites, Mass liturgy - The Liturgy of the Word, Mass liturgy - The Liturgy of the Eucharist, Mass liturgy - The Communion rite, Mass liturgy - Concluding rite, Mass liturgy - Time of celebration of Mass, Mass liturgy - Special Masses, Mass liturgy - Nuptial Mass and other Ritual Masses

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Eastern Rite: Encyclopedia II - Mass liturgy - Structure of the Roman Rite of Mass

Within the fixed structure outlined below, the Scripture readings and the text of the three prayers known as the collect, the prayer over the gifts, and the postcommunion prayer varies each day. Mass liturgy - Introductory rites. After an entrance hymn or the recitation of an antiphon, Mass begins with the large sign of the cross (the fingertips of the right hand touch in sequence the forehead, breast, left shoulder and right shoulder) to the accompaniment of the Trinitarian formula, "In the name of the Fa ...

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Mass liturgy, Mass liturgy - The Mass in Roman Catholicism, Mass liturgy - Texts used in the Roman Rite of Mass, Mass liturgy - Structure of the Roman Rite of Mass, Mass liturgy - Introductory rites, Mass liturgy - The Liturgy of the Word, Mass liturgy - The Liturgy of the Eucharist, Mass liturgy - The Communion rite, Mass liturgy - Concluding rite, Mass liturgy - Time of celebration of Mass, Mass liturgy - Special Masses, Mass liturgy - Nuptial Mass and other Ritual Masses, Mass liturgy - The Anglican Missal

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Eastern Rite: Encyclopedia II - Mass liturgy - Structure of the present-day Roman-rite Mass

Within the fixed structure outlined below, the Scripture readings and the text of the three prayers known as the collect, the prayer over the gifts, and the postcommunion prayer varies each day. Mass liturgy - Introductory rites. After an entrance hymn or the recitation of an antiphon, Mass begins with the large sign of the cross (the fingertips of the right hand touch in sequence the forehead, breast, left shoulder and right shoulder) to the accompaniment of the Trinitarian formula, "In the name of the Fa ...

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Mass liturgy, Mass liturgy - The Mass in Roman Catholicism, Mass liturgy - Texts used in the Roman Rite of Mass, Mass liturgy - Structure of the present-day Roman-rite Mass, Mass liturgy - Introductory rites, Mass liturgy - The Liturgy of the Word, Mass liturgy - The Liturgy of the Eucharist, Mass liturgy - The Communion rite, Mass liturgy - Concluding rite, Mass liturgy - Time of celebration of Mass, Mass liturgy - Special Masses, Mass liturgy - Nuptial Mass and other Ritual Masses, Mass liturgy - The Anglican Missal

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Eastern Rite: Encyclopedia II - Eastern Orthodox Church organization - Eastern Orthodox Church jurisdictions

Eastern Orthodox Church organization - Autocephalous churches. Orthodox Church of Constantinople Orthodox Church of Alexandria Orthodox Church of Antioch Orthodox Church of Jerusalem Russian Orthodox Church Georgian Orthodox and Apostolic Church Serbian Orthodox Church Romanian Orthodox Church Bulgarian Orthodox Church Orthodox Church of Cyprus Church of Greece Polish Orthodox Church Albanian Orthodox Church Czech and Slovak Ortho ...

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Eastern Orthodox Church organization, Eastern Orthodox Church organization - Some history, Eastern Orthodox Church organization - Eastern Orthodox Church jurisdictions, Eastern Orthodox Church organization - Autocephalous churches, Eastern Orthodox Church organization - Autonomous churches, Eastern Orthodox Church organization - Churches with ambiguous status, Eastern Orthodox Church organization - Churches in resistance, Eastern Orthodox Church organization - Churches that have voluntarily walled themselves off, Eastern Orthodox Church organization - Churches that are unrecognized by others, Eastern Orthodox Church organization - Churches self-styled as Orthodox yet unrecognized as such

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Eastern Rite: Encyclopedia - Armenian Catholic Patriarchs

This is a list of Armenian Catholic Patriarchs. The Armenian Catholic patriarchate was established in 1740 and recognized by the Pope of the Catholic Church in 1742 following a schism within the Armenian Patriarchate based in Cilicia. They are one of the Uniate Patriarchs of the Eastern Rite of the Catholic Church. Armenian Catholic Patriarchs - Armenian Catholic Patriarchs of Cilicia 1737-present. Apraham Bedros I 1737-1749 Hagop Bedros II 1749-1753 Mikael Bedros III 1753-17 ...

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Eastern Rite: Encyclopedia - Chaldean Neo-Aramaic

Chaldean Neo-Aramaic is a modern Eastern Aramaic or Syriac language. Called Neo-Aramaic, it is not to be confused with the, mostly now disused, term Chaldean referring to the Old Aramaic dialect of the Chaldean, or eleventh, dynasty of Babylonia. Originally, Chaldean Neo-Aramaic was spoken on the Plain of Mosul, northern Iraq, but it is now the language of a worldwide diaspora. Most speakers are members of the Chaldean Catholic Church. Chaldean Neo-Aramaic - Origin history and use today. Chald ...

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Eastern Rite: Encyclopedia - Chaldean Catholic Church

The Chaldean Catholic Church aka the Chaldean Church of Babylon is an Eastern Rite sui juris (autonomous) particular church of the Roman Catholic Church, maintaining full communion with the Pope in Rome. It descends from the Church of the East. In the 15th century the Assyrian church decreed that the title of Patriarch could pass only to relatives of then-patriarch Mar Shimun IV. Dissent over this grew until in 1552, a group of bishops refused to accept t ...

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Eastern Rite: Encyclopedia - Byzantine Catholic Metropolitan Church of Pittsburgh

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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Eastern Rite: Encyclopedia - Cardinal Bishop

Cardinal Bishops, or Cardinals of the Episcopal Order, are among the most senior prelates of the Roman Catholic Church. Originally this term referred specifically and exclusively to the men named to head the six suburbicarian dioceses, who include the Dean of the College of Cardinals. In 1965 Pope Paul VI decreed in his motu proprio Ad purpuratorum patrum that Eastern Rite patriarchs who were named Cardinals would also be part of the episcopal order, ranked after the six Cardinal Bishops of the suburbicaria ...

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Eastern Rite: Encyclopedia - Cardinal Catholicism

A cardinal is a senior ecclesiastical official in the Roman Catholic Church, ranking just below the Pope and appointed by him as a member of the College of Cardinals during a consistory. The duties of the cardinals are to attend the meetings of the Sacred College and to make themselves available individually if the Pope desires their counsel. Most cardinals have additional duties either leading many of the c ...

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Eastern Rite: Encyclopedia - Armenian Apostolic Church

The Armenian Apostolic Church, sometimes incorrectly called the Armenian Orthodox Church is the world's oldest national church and one of the original churches, having been founded in 301. The Apostolic Church separated from the then-still-united Roman Catholic/Byzantine Orthodox church in 451, after the Council of Chalcedon (see Oriental Orthodoxy). The earliest accounts of the introduction of Christianity into Armenia date from the 1st century A.D. when it was first preached by two Apostles of Jesus, St. Bartholomew and St. T ...

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Eastern Rite: Encyclopedia - Catholic church hierarchy

In its application to the Catholic Church, the term hierarchy originally referred to the "holy ordering" of the entire People of God. It is now almost exclusively used to refer to the holy ordering of the clergy of the church, those who have received the sacrament of Holy Orders. All churches that adopt a "catholic principle" of ecclesial order—Catholics, Orthodox, Anglicans, etc.—acknowledge a threefold hierarchical order which was divinely inspired and therefore a permanent structural feature of the church: Bishops ...

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Eastern Rite: Encyclopedia - Coptic Christianity

Coptic Orthodox Christianity is the indigenous form of Christianity that, according to tradition, the apostle Mark established in Egypt in the middle of the 1st century AD (approximately 42). The Church belongs to the Oriental Orthodoxy, and the see of Alexandria in Coptic Christianity has been a distinct church body since the Council of Chalcedon in 451. Her leader is the Pope of Alexandria and the Patriarch of the Holy See of Saint Mark, currently Pope Shenouda III. More than 95% of Egypt's Christians belong to the Coptic Orthodox C ...

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Eastern Rite: Encyclopedia - Umbracullum

The umbracullum is a historic piece of the papal regalia and insignia, once used on a daily basis to provide shade for the pope. In modern usage, the umbracullum is a symbol of the Roman Catholic Church and the authority of a pope over it and the Eastern Rite. It is found in the contemporary Church at all the basilicas throughout the world, placed prominently at the right of their main altars. Whenever a ...

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Eastern Rite: Encyclopedia - Ukrainians

Russia:   2,860,0001[1] Canada:   1,071,0601[2] USA:   890,0001[3] Brazil:   550,0001[4] Kazakhstan:   500,0001 Moldova:   450,0001 Poland:   300,0001 Belarus:   250,000 Slovakia:   200,0001 Argentina:   100,000 (est) Germany:   100,000 (est)   Slavs< ...

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