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 | | The Chaldean Rite is one of five main eastern Catholic Rites, with the Alexandrine rite (Coptic and Ethiopian), the Rite of Antioch (Syro and Maronite), the Armenian, that of Constantinople. |
 | | The Chaldean rite is celebrated by the Assyrian Church of the East, the Chaldean Church, the Syro-Malabar Church. |
 | | The Chaldean liturgy preserves nearly exclusively the use of the Syrian language (or Aramaic) although, in the Middle East, in some churches, readings in Arabic, the language of the people of that area, are used. |
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