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	The Other Catholics: A Short Guide to the Eastern Catholic Churches
		According to the Constitution on the Church, Lumen Gentium, the Catholic Church is understood to be "a corporate body of Churches," united with the bishop of Rome, who serves as the guardian of unity.
		In 1895, Pope Leo XIII of Rome reestablished the patriarchate of Alexandria for the Coptic Catholic Church.
		In response, Constantinople excommunicated the Catholic patriarch and appointed a Greek as the Orthodox patriarch of Antioch.
	catholiceducation.org /articles/religion/re0804.html (5175 words)

	Eastern Rite - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Most Eastern Catholics are also directly subject to a patriarch or, who has authority for all the bishops and the other faithful of his rite or particular Church (canons 56 and 151 of the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches).
		The Eastern Catholic Churches are in full communion of faith and of acceptance of authority with the see of Rome, but retain their distinctive liturgical rites, laws and customs, and traditional devotions.
		The canon law that the Eastern Catholic Churches have in common has been codified in the 1991 Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches, while the Western or Latin particular Church is governed by the Code of Canon Law, a second edition of which was issued in 1983.
	www.lexington-fayette.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Eastern_Rite (1349 words)

	Eastern Rite Catholic Churches Information
		The Eastern Catholic Churches are in full communion of faith and of acceptance of authority with the see of Rome, but retain their distinctive liturgical rites, laws and customs, and traditional devotions.
		Byzantine Church of the Eparchy of Križevci (an eparchy and an apostolic exarchate): Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro
		Hungarian Byzantine Catholic Church (an eparchy and an apostolic exarchate): Hungary
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Eastern_Rite_Catholic_Churches (2670 words)

	Unofficial Home Page of The One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church
		The Church of the Province of Uganda 8,000,000
		The Church of the Province of Myanmar 49,247
		The Church of the Province of Melanesia 163,884
	www.nestorian.org /unofficial_home_page_of_the_on.html (2369 words)

	Roman Catholic Church - Christianity Knowledge Base
		Formally, the Roman Catholic Church defines itself as the Church governed by the Pope - considered to be the "successor of Peter", and therefore charged with leadership of all Christians - and the bishops in communion with him.
		The Catechism of the Catholic Church, 85 states that authentic interpretation of the Word of God is entrusted to the living Magisterium of the Church, namely the bishops in communion with the successor of Peter.
		Byzantine Church of the Eparchy of Križevci (Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro)
	christianity.wikia.com /wiki/Roman_Catholic_Church (8668 words)

	Italy's Byzantine Catholics
		The Albanians migrated to Italy after the Council of Florence (1439) declared the union between the Church of Rome and several Eastern churches, including the Church of Constantinople.
		Remarkably, this appointment was confirmed by the patriarch of Constantinople, with the authorization of the pope, in 1553; after the decrees of the Council of Florence were declared null and void by the Orthodox.
		Although the history of Italy's Byzantine Church, Greek and Albanian, is charged with misunderstandings, tension and diversities, the Catholic Church has kept alive, within its central Roman adminstration, the respect demanded of legitimate diversity - an essential component of modern ecumenism.
	www.byzantines.net /OurLadyofGrace/article2.htm (1323 words)

	Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: The Italo-Albanian Catholic Church
		Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: The Italo-Albanian Catholic Church
		Albanian villages in Southern Italy now (2001) have a total of about 250 000 inhabitants, but only 150 000 of them preserve Albanian dialects and only 61 000 the Byzantine rite.
		Piana del Greci /in Albanian: Hora, or Qana [It.-Alb.] (detached from Monreale, and from Palermo) - Italy
	www.katolsk.no /utenriks/kronologi/orient_italoalbanian.htm (735 words)

	Italo-Albanian Catholic Church
		By this time the local Byzantine church was flourishing, and there were hundreds of monasteries along the coasts of southern Italy.
		This marked the beginning of a process which led to the almost total absorption of the Byzantine faithful into the Latin church.
		This decline was reversed in the 15th century with the arrival of two large groups of Albanian immigrants who had fled their country following its conquest by the Turks.
	www.byzantines.net /OurLadyofGrace/church.htm (517 words)

	Religion in Eastern Europe
		But the Catholic Church was immediately attacked as a foreign element and as an exploiter of the people.
		At this time the Albanian authorities were satisfied with religious communities living in the outskirts of Albanian society, completely unable to influence anything of importance in Albania, and just sufficient to cater to the needs of the old and the dying.
		The Albanian cultural revolution started in March 1966, but even at a party congress at the beginning of November 1966, the question of religion was hardly touched.
	www.georgefox.edu /academics/undergrad/departments/soc-swk/ree/HIORTH.html (3092 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Greek Church
		In the East, when a Church is spoken of, four things must be kept distinct: the race to which the adherents of the Church belong; the speech used in their everyday life, and in their public devotions; the ecclesiastical rite used in their liturgy, and their actual belief, Catholic or non-Catholic.
		The government of the Church was monarchical; as a rule every city had its bishop, and the priests were his assistants; the deacons and lower ministers attended to the ceremonial and to charitable works.
		The superior hierarchy of a Greek Church at the period we are treating of, viz., from the fourth to the tenth century, was composed of a patriarch, a catholicos, the greater metropolitans, the autocephalous metropolitans, the archbishops and the bishops.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/06752a.htm (17485 words)

	albanian cath/ortho come in here... - Page 4 - Albanian Forums
		It was Christianity that gave Albanian people a stronger identity during the times of barbarian and Ottoman onslaughts, and it was in the 14th century, during Scanderbeg's times, that their country turned into a sacred land, when he defended Christianity as Pope and Patriarch were struggling against each other.
		The greatest event by far for the Orthodox Church of Albania was the holding of a pan-Albanian Congress in Berat on September 10, 1922, which approved the city KorÃ§Ã« as the headquarters of the Orthodox Church of Albania.
		Albanian believers can be found anywhere in a space populated by Albanian people, but the prevalence of representatives of a given religion differs from region to region in the Albanian space, Balkans and the world.
	www.albanian.com /community/vbl/showthread.php?p=152831 (7712 words)

	An overview of the Rites of the Catholic Church
		As Vicar of the universal Church, the Pope is shepherd of the rites of the West and the East.
		All the rites of the Catholic Church are of equal dignity and equally valid.
		Apostolic Exarch for Catholics of the Byzantine rite in Greece
	www.mncuf.org /rites.htm (1603 words)

	Catholic Community Forum Discussion Groups - "one holy, catholic, and apostolic Church" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The distinctions of Rites in the Church are unnecessary.
		The Catholic Church is a communion of 24 Churches.
		The Catholic church is composed of many flavors, but all have unity in faith (if they didn't they would be heretics) and unity in communion (schismatics).
	stmark.catholic-forum.com /forums/showthread.php?t=3201 (1030 words)

	Church & Liturgy Education Links - Catholic Answers Forums
		Churches that utilize the Byzantine Rite, technically, are properly styled 'Eastern Catholic Churches', with most of the remainder appropriately termed 'Oriental Catholic'; the Maronite and Chaldean Catholic Churches properly fall into neither classification but, for convenience, are usually discussed in common with the Oriental Catholic Churches.
		The Apostolic Exarchate of Moscow for Byzantine Russian Catholics in Russia and the Apostolic Exarchate of Harbin for Russian Byzantines and All Oriental Rite Catholics in China.
		Likewise Catholic ministers licitly administer the sacraments of penance, the Eucharist and anointing of the sick to Christian faithful of Eastern Churches, who do not have full communion with the Catholic Church, if they ask for them on their own and are properly disposed.
	forums.catholic.com /showthread.php?t=12783 (6128 words)

	Albanian Information - Albanian.com
		Built originally as a Roman Catholic Church and one of the primary churches of the Catholics of the region, Levishka was later converted to an Eastern Orthodox Church.
		It was an assembly of representatives of all Albanian inhabited regions that demanded autonomy from the Ottoman Empire.
		This event was the starting point of the Albanian liberation movement which eventually led to the declaration of the independence of Albania in 1912.
	www.albanian.com /main/countries/kosova/prizren/index.html (686 words)

	Albanian Telegraphic Agency (ATA), 99-04-13
		Albanian Premier Pandeli Majko stressed that the end of conflict after the returning of the kosovars and the dislocation of NATO troops as a guarantee for their life.
		Albanian Prime Minister stressed the Albanian decision to be a peace and stability factor in the region even after the end of the conflict.
		Albanian Prime Minister ordered the beginning of the controls in all central and local institutions to be involved with the welcome, transport, accommodation, food provision for the displaced Kosova.
	www.hri.org /news/balkans/ata/1999/99-04-13.ata.html (5020 words)

	Syro-Malankara Catholic Church (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		And at present the oriental catholic churches are governed according to the norms of this code.
		'sui iuris' is an innovation of CCEO and it denotes the relative autonomy of the oriental Catholic Churches.
		And the Eparchy of Bathery was erected for the Malankara Catholics of Malabar (north Kerala) region on 28
	www.malankara.net /articles/metropolitan_church_sui_iuris.asp (6184 words)

	St. Thomas the Apostle Byzantine Catholic Church: Plural Catholic Identities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Catholic Church was born in the East In the Great Commissioning (Mt 28:16-29) the Apostles and Disciples were to go out to the whole world and baptize in the Name of the Trinity.
		On the other hand, insofar as the Tradition of the Church from her first days was pluralistic, embracing, even baptizing, those various cultures, and preserving those cultural differences even to this day; also, granting that Catholicism is always expressed in an inculturated experience, it may validly be said that there is no one Catholic Identity.
		Anthony J. Salim is a priest of the Maronite Catholic Church, one of the five churches of the Syriac-speaking Tradition.
	www.saintthomastheapostle.org /salim1.html (2244 words)

	Albanian Catholic Church - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Albanian Catholic Church is a Byzantine Rite church sui juris of the Catholic Communion.
		Not to be confused with the Italo-Albanian Catholic Church, this church consists of the Byzantine Catholics living in Albania.
		Its present leader is Most Rev. Hil Kabashi, OFM, Apostolic Administrator of Albania Meridionale.
	www.secaucus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Albanian_Catholic_Church (130 words)

	Albanian Catholics give thanks for their spacious new church
		Instead, it was pondered by parishioners in Rochester Hills, in the new sanctuary of what's believed to be the largest Albanian Catholic church not located in that troubled Yugoslav province.
		Paul's Albanian Catholic Church, long a religious mainstay in Warren, has been in its new building on Auburn Road near Rochester Road for only a few weeks.
		From the gray timbers of the soaring roof to the patterned tile on the floors, the new sanctuary combines the majesty of the old with the efficiency of the new.
	www.freep.com /news/religion/church16_20020916.htm (421 words)

	Eastern Rites of the Catholic Church
		This is being written with a recognition that, in the United States at least, many Latin Rite Catholics forget that the Eastern Catholic Churches are part of the same Catholic Church.
		In general, when the numbers of Eastern Catholics organized into their own parishes is small, they relate to the local Latin Rite bishop.
		Eastern Catholic Churches are at times insultingly called “uniate” Churches, meaning that they gave in to pressure to unite with Rome.
	www.jmahoney.com /eastern_rites.htm (505 words)

	History
		The Church was originally known as the "American Orthodox Catholic Church", but because of several schisms which caused various unorthodox groups to form, the Church was later renamed and restructured.
		After joining the Orthodox Catholic Church, he founded St. Paul the Apostle Monastery (Rolling Prairie Indiana) around 1955, and was ordained deacon on February 13, 1957 by Most Reverend Stephan (Siniotis), and on May 22, 1961 he was ordained priest by Most Reverend Francis Resch of the Independent Diocese of Kankakee Illinois.
		As with all the Holy Churches of Orthodox Faith women are not allowed to be ordained because of tradition and the decrees of the early Church Fathers.
	www.rbsocc.org /history.html (2330 words)

	Police arrest church gunman - 03/31/03
		By the time the church had emptied, seven people were injured, mostly from cuts caused by the glass.
		Gjokaj said it was an isolated incident and shouldn't be used to portray all Albanians as hotheads in violent pursuit of one another.
		Paul's, whose membership comprises 1,000 families, is one of the largest Albanian churches in the United States.
	www.detnews.com /2003/metro/0303/31/d01-123167.htm (891 words)

	Spero Forum - Baptist, Protestant, and Catholic Discussion - Catholic terms & Catholic structure
		With regard to the doctrinal teaching of the Church it must be well noted that not all the assertions of the Teaching Authority of the Church on questions of Faith and morals are infallible and consequently irrevocable.
		The Catechism of the Catholic Church, which I approved 25 June last and the publication of which I today order by virtue of my Apostolic Authority, is a statement of the Church's faith and of catholic doctrine, attested to or illumined by Sacred Scripture, the Apostolic Tradition and the Church's Magisterium.
		Therefore, I ask all the Church's Pastors and the Christian faithful to receive this catechism in a spirit of communion and to use it assiduously in fulfilling their mission of proclaiming the faith and calling people to the Gospel life.
	www.speroforum.com /forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=3428 (2053 words)

	Presidenti i Republikes se Shqiperise
		The Albanian Christianity is one of the oldest in Europe.
		Albanians have given birth to distinguished personalities who have not only honoured our nation, but also the Holy See, and have radiated to the whole world their contribution and virtues to humanity.
		Albanians have always appreciated the Catholic Church as the institution of knowledge and culture.
	www.president.al /english/pub/info.asp?id=7 (975 words)

	Eastern Catholic Churches and Liturgies
		Eastern Catholics are members of the Catholic Church, under the authority of the Vatican and the Pope, but worshipping within a different organizational structure.
		These Churches are in communion with Rome and yet retain their distinctive traditions of liturgy, devotion and prayer.
		Roman Catholics are welcome at Eastern Catholic Churches and may receive communion at their sacred liturgies.
	www.salvationhistory.com /library/liturgy/sacraments/eastern.cfm (549 words)

	Catholic Culture : Document Library : The Other Catholics
		The Eastern Catholic Churches are part of this "corporate body".
		They were founded by the apostles and are particular, autonomous Churches of their own rightful existence (sui iuris).
		This Church was founded by the East Syrian-Rite Syro-Malabar Christians that rejected the Portuguese Latinizations.
	www.catholicculture.org /docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=6636&longdesc (5305 words)

	Eastern Catholic Churches (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Eastern Catholic churches are divided into five main traditions.
		Church is the second largest Eastern Catholic Church with nearly 3 million faithful.
		Syro-Malabar Church was elevated to the status of a Major Archiepiscopal Church on May 20, 1993 with His Eminence Cardinal Antony Padiyara as the First Major Archbishop.
	members.aol.com /smalabar/eastchur.htm (234 words)

	THE EASTERN CATHOLIC CHURCHES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Eastern Catholic Churches refer to those Churches that developed in the eastern half of the Roman Empire, including those communities that derived from them, and are in communion with Rome.
		The Coptic Catholic Church in Ethiopia and Eritrea
		The Ethiopian (and Eritrean) Catholic Church follows the ancient Coptic rite of Alexandria and is under the jurisdiction of the Coptic Catholic Patriarch of Alexandria.
	maryourmother.net /Eastern.html (4625 words)

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