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	Albanian Byzantine Catholic Church - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Albanian Byzantine Catholic Church is an autonomous Byzantine Rite particular Church of the Catholic Church, whose members lives in Albania, and is not to be confused with the Italo-Albanian Catholic Church.
		Though the Greek liturgical rite was used in many of its churches, Albania was part of the patriarchate of Rome until 731, when Byzantine Emperor Leo III, in reprisal for the opposition of Pope Saint Gregory III to the emperor's iconoclast policy, attached the whole of eastern Illyricum to the patriarchate of Constantinople.
		Catholics, of Latin Rite, were long established in the north of the country.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Albanian_Byzantine_Catholic_Church (455 words)

	Eastern Rite Catholic Churches - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Greek_Catholic (2684 words)

	Religious - Christian - The Balkan Peninsula and Adjacent Areas
		The Serbian Orthodox Church in Bosnia-Herzegovina and The Bosnian Orthodox Church
		The Montenegrin Orthodox Church and the Serbian Orthodox Church in Montenegro
		The Archbishopric of Ohrid and the Macedonian Orthodox Church.
	learning.lib.vt.edu /slav/relig_chr_balkan.html (3469 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Greek Church
		Thus the Ruthenian Church of Galicia, the Rumanian Church of Austria-Hungary, the Bulgarian Church of Turkish Bulgaria, the Melchite Church of Syria, the Georgian Church, the Italo-Greek Church, and the Church of the Greeks in Turkey or in the Hellenic Kingdom -- all of them Catholic -- are often called the United Greek Churches.
		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.
		A sub-type of the Syriac rite is represented by the liturgies used in the Syriac Churches of Mesopotamia and Persia; the liturgy of Sts.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/06752a.htm (18259 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)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Greek Orthodox Church in America (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Greek immigration was confined to the hundreds until 1890; the immigration figures for 1905-08 are: Greece, 77,607; Turkey, 19,032.
		Subsequently the new church on East 72nd Street was acquired, in which they have erected one of the finest Greek interiors — the altar, iconostasis and throne being of Pentelic marble.
		Their clergy consist of 7 archimandrites, 3 monks, and 25 secular priests, but the churches are in the main governed by the lay trustees and particularly by the president of the board.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/06772a.htm (2310 words)

	St. Anthony of Padua Maronite Church, Cincinnati, Ohio - Eastern Catholic Churches Q&A (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Thus, while the early Catholic Churches agreed on the set of beliefs stated in the Creeds and celebrated in her diverse liturgies, these Churches appeared different in their outward expressions.
		The Roman Catholic Church is the Western Church of the Latin Tradition.
		The 21 autonomous Eastern Catholic Churches have their diverse origins in five Traditions: Byzantine (the largest and most diverse, with 13 Churches); the Antiochene (3 Churches); the Alexandrine (2 Churches); the Assyrian-Chaldean Church of the East (2 Churches), and the Armenian Tradition.
	www.stanthonycincinnati.com /eastern_churches_q_a (902 words)

	CUF.org :: Catholics United for the Faith
		In 506, the Armenian bishops formally rejected the Christological definitions of the Council of Chalcedon (451), and thus the Armenian Apostolic Church was born.
		Catholic missionary activity began in 1856, and Pope Saint Pius X appointed a bishop for the Church in 1911.
		The current Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, of Alexandria and of Jerusalem is His Beatitude Gregory III Laham (born 1933, elected 2000), who resides in Damascus.
	www.cuf.org /Faithfacts/details_view.asp?ffID=177 (3388 words)

	Catholic-Pages.com \| Discussion Forum - Can the Pope be Byzantine Cathoic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		We are all Catholics and all in communion with the Pope.
		Byzantine Ruthenian Catholic Church - Eparchy of Mukachevo
		The Apostolic Exarchate of Istanbul for the Byzantine Georgian Catholics is sede vacante.
	www.catholic-pages.com /forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=4823 (4471 words)

	St. Thomas the Apostle Byzantine Catholic Church: Plural Catholic Identities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		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.
	saintthomastheapostle.org /salim1.html (2244 words)

	The Greek (Eastern) Orthodox Church of America (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The non-Chalcedonian Churches include the Coptic Church of Egypt, the Ethiopian Church, the Armenian Apostolic Church, the Church of St. Thomas in India, and the Jacobite Syrian Church of Antioch.
		The living tradition of the Church and the principles of concord and harmony are expressed through the common mind of the universal episcopate as the need arises.
		The first Greek Orthodox parishes in North America were under the jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople which had over the centuries assumed responsibility for the diaspora communities and assigned to them their priests.
	www.goarch.org /en/ourfaith/articles/article8086.asp (2234 words)

	American Orthodox Catholic Church - OrthodoxWiki
		The American Orthodox Catholic Church (in full, The Holy Eastern Orthodox Catholic and Apostolic Church in North America) was the first attempt by mainstream Orthodox canonical authorities at the creation of an autocephalous Orthodox church for North America.
		Starting in 1927 the first move was initiated to found a canonical American Orthodox Church with the blessing of the Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church and with the hope that world Orthodoxy would recognize the legitimacy of the new body.
		The reaction against the establishment of the new church was "swift and negative," especially from the Karlovsty Synod (ROCOR), with whom the Metropolia had broken ties shortly before in 1926 and who viewed itself as the Metropolia's rightful canonical authority.
	www.orthodoxwiki.org /American_Orthodox_Catholic_Church (2694 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.
	jmahoney.com /eastern_rites.htm (505 words)

	Oriental Catholic Churches
		The Syro-Malabar Church, the second largest of the 21 Oriental Churches (the largest being the Ukrainian Catholic Church), is a sister church of the Chaldean Church, and follows the Chaldean (East Syrian) tradition.
		The Syro-Malankara Church is a sister church of the Antiochene Church, and follows the Antiochean (West Syrian) tradition.
		Note: When the Catholic Church accords a status hierarchically, the status of a Church and its population are not commensurate.
	www.syromalabar.com /the-church/catholic-church/oriental-churches.htm (539 words)

	Eastern Catholic Churches (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		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)

	Religious - Christian - Families
		MAR ROUPHAEL I BIDAWID - Patriarch of Babylon for the Catholic Chaldean [Church].
		His Beatitude The Patriarch GREGORIUS III LAHHAM - Greek Melkite Patriarch of Antioch and all the East and Alexandria and Jerusalem - Patriarchal Head of the Greek Melkite Catholic Church.
		The [Greek Catholic] Apostolic Exarchate in the Czech Republic.
	learning.lib.vt.edu /slav/relig_chr_fam.html (1001 words)

	Lakewood Faiths: The Orthodox Christian Church
		The Orthodox Christian Church was established by Jesus Christ on Pentecost with the outpouring of the All-Holy Spirit upon the gathered Apostles in order that the revelation and teachings of our Lord, God, and Savior, Jesus Christ, be preserved, faithfully transmitted, and preached to all the world.
		In February 1923, a bell was purchased for the church and construction began on a new rectory.
		The dedication of the church took place on July 2, 1950, and dedicated members of the church continued their generous donations for stained glass windows, pews, chandelier, kitchen equipment, and other necessary items.
	www.lkwdpl.org /city/faith13.htm (496 words)

	ARCHDIOCESE OF AMERICA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Our Church is also spoken of as the "Eastern Church" to distinguish it from the Churches of the West.
		The first Greek Orthodox community in the Americas was founded in 1864 in New Orleans,LA by a small colony of Greek merchants.
		Archbishop Iakovos who was enthroned on April 1, 1959 ushered in the dawn of a new era for Greek Orthodox in America as the Archbishop was the first to be selected from the ranks of the American clergy.
	www.goarch.org /en/archdiocese (2200 words)

	I was raised in the Roman Catholic Church
		I was raised in the Roman Catholic Church
		There are many separate Catholic churches that are considered Eastern Rite churches.
		I had heard my mother explain that we were Greek Catholics, but I certainly never heard the term Melkite before.
	www.herro.com /familytree/familytree2.htm (367 words)

	Rites of the Catholic Church
		The truth is that the Roman Catholic Church is only one of a family of churches that vary in culture, but are united under the leadership of Christ's vicar, that is, the pope.
		The different churches in the family of Catholic churches are referred to as rites.
		Rites of the Catholic Church in the East
	www.grigaitis.net /articles/rites.html (210 words)

	Links
		An Introduction to the Eastern Rites of the Catholic Church
		The Unofficial Directory of the Eastern Catholic Churches in the U.S. An Introduction to the Eastern Rites of the Catholic Church
		The Fathers of the Church on the Bible
	www.byzantines.net /OurLadyofGrace/links.htm (47 words)

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