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	Eastern Rite - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The term Eastern Rites may refer to the liturgical rites used by many ancient Christian Churches of Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and India that, while being part of the Catholic Church, are distinct from the Latin Rite or Western Church.
		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.
		Most Eastern Catholics are also directly subject to a patriarch, major archbishop, or metropolitan 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).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eastern_Rite (1489 words)

	Eastern Rite Churches
		Eastern Rite Churches are organized by the Congregation for the Eastern Churches, the pope serving as prefect, and a cardinal pro-prefect as chairman.
		The Eastern Rite Churches are also called Eastern Rite Church (note the singular) and Eastern Catholic Church or Uniate Church.
		There are now 6 Eastern Catholic patriarchs: 1 in Alexandria for the Copts; 3 in Antioch (1 for the Maronites (based in Jounieh, Lebanon), 1 for the Syrians, 1 for the Melkites (based in Damascus, Syria)); 1 in Babylonia (for the Chaldeans); 1 in Sis (for the Armenians).
	www.i-cias.com /e.o/east_rite.htm (636 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Eastern Churches
		Eastern Churches depend originally on the Eastern Empire at Constantinople; they are those that either find their centre in the patriarchate of that city (since the centralization of the fourth century) or have been formed by schisms which in the first instance concerned Constantinople rather than the Western world.
		Eastern Church, 326); the ludicrous scandal at Monastir, in Macedonia, when they fought over a dead man's body and set the whole town ablaze because some wanted him to be buried in Greek and some in Rumanian (op.
		The idea of latinizing all Eastern Catholics, sometimes defended by people on our side whose zeal for uniformity is greater than their knowledge of the historical and juridical situation, is diametrically opposed to antiquity, to the Catholic system of ecclesiastical organization, and to the policy of all popes.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/05230a.htm (12208 words)

	Eastern Rite
		The Eastern Rites are the rites used by many of the ancient Christian churches of Eastern Europe and the Middle East that are in the Catholic Communion but do not follow the Latin Rite.
		Eastern Orthodox perspectives on church unity is subject of...
		For example, their priests need not be celibate, and their parish priests, rather than diocesan bishops, normally confirm parishioners, using the chrismation rite rather than the rite used in the west.
	www.wikiverse.org /eastern-rite (757 words)

	Eastern Rites of the Catholic Church
		There are seven liturgical rites used by both Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches.
		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.
		“Eastern liturgies are notable because of their length; because of their frequent use of incense; because they are always sung; and because parts of the service are hidden from view within a sanctuary enclosed by a curtain or barrier.
	jmahoney.com /eastern_rites.htm (505 words)

	Byzantines.net - Eastern-Rite Catholicism
		All Rites are one in the union of Christ& Church under the headship of the Bishop of Rome.
		Eastern piety has remained largely free from the historical developments that in other places have led at different periods to the highlighting of this or that relatively peripheral aspect of Christian devotional life.
		This is especially true of the East, where the intimate union of Rite with the religious culture and piety of the people has preserved the primitive centrality of the liturgy in the religious life of the Christian community.
	www.byzantines.net /books/eastern-rite.htm (9994 words)

	Latin Rite
		In Eastern-rite Catholic churches, that sacrament is administered by parish priests to newly baptized infants via the rite of chrismation.
		Eastern-rite Catholic priests, like Eastern Orthodox priests, may marry before they are ordained, but if they do so, they may not become bishops.
		Sometimes it refers to all churches that are in full communion with the Pope and who acknowledge that all Christians owe obedience to the Pope, including the Eastern-rite Catholic churches.
	www.wikiverse.org /latin-rite (395 words)

	Eastern Rite Churches, Uniate Churches
		Eastern Rite churches are communities of eastern Christians in union with the Roman Catholic church.
		The Eastern Rite Churches are Eastern Christian churches consisting of five rites derived from ancient traditions of Christian churches in the East.
		The largest Eastern Rite church - the Ukrainian Catholic church- was formed when Ukrainian subjects of the king of Poland were united with Rome in 1596.
	www.mb-soft.com /believe/txn/eastrite.htm (795 words)

	The Eastern Rite Church
		Although these Eastern Rites differ from the Western or Latin Rite in "rite" and liturgy, ecclesiastical discipline and Canon Law and spiritual traditions, they are fully part of the Roman Catholic Church under the leadership and pastoral care of the pope, the successor of St. Peter.
		The Romanian Rite, centered in Romania with a significant population in the United States, reunited with Rome in 1697 and use Modern Romanian in their liturgy; in 1948, they were forced to join the Romanian Orthodox Church in Romania, but since the fall of communism, the Catholic Romanian Rite has regained independence.
		The Eastern Rite Catholics are part of the Roman Catholic Church, not the Orthodox Church.
	www.catholiceducation.org /articles/religion/re0246.html (2955 words)

	Mary and the Eastern Christian
		Those following the Byzantine rite, in fact, enjoy a liturgical tradition established by the early Church in Constantinople, and it is this tradition that is followed by the majority of Orthodox and Eastern-rite Catholics even today.
		Unlike Roman Catholics, the Eastern faithful have retained a more visible evidence of their religious progress through the ages, reminding them that they are only the latest chapter in the story of creation.
		While Roman Catholics and their Eastern neighbors have not always agreed on all issues, Mary has continued to be a source of unity and hope through the ages.
	hometown.aol.com /philvaz/articles/num22.htm (2271 words)

	Ordination of Married Men in the Eastern Church
		The Eastern practice was codified by the Emperors Theodosius II and Justinian I. Marriage was not permitted for candidates to the episcopacy.
		During the 4th century in the Eastern Church the growing influence of monasticism and Neoplatonism with their emphasis on the practice of celibacy led to a need for ecclesiastical legislation to govern the marriage of the clergy.
		In addition to upholding the practice of a married clergy the Eastern Code of Canon Law respects the traditional eastern discipline that bishops are not to be married.
	www.byzantines.net /epiphany/ordination.htm (4980 words)

	An Eastern Rite Pope As a Catalyst for Christian Unity
		The Ukrainian, Ruthenian, Melkite, Maronite and other Greek or Eastern Rite Catholic churches, in full communion with and obedience to the Roman pope, also have married priests according to the same rule as the Orthodox.
		During the first Christian millennium, there were a number of Eastern Rite popes, from Greece, Syria and other Eastern countries.
		Both Eastern Rite Catholic and Orthodox churches promote only unmarried priests to the rank of bishop.
	www.aina.org /news/20050418103020.htm (1127 words)

	What is an Eastern Rite Catholic Church?
		Pope John Paul II has compared the Western and Eastern Rites of the Church to our left and right lungs and that for the Church to thrive it must breath with both lungs.
		We, the Mother of God Catholic Church, are part of the Byzantine-Ukrainian Rite (1 of 23 Rites in the Catholic Church) that is in full communion with and obedient to the Pope, the head of the Roman Catholic Church in Rome.
		This is why the Eastern Churches call on their members to engage in a spiritual warfare in the arena of their hearts, learning to subject their weaknesses to the divinizing power of the Holy Spirit working within them.
	www.motherofgodchurch.org /mog/eastern.htm (1046 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: West Syrian Rite
		But (as is the case with most Eastern Rite Catholic Churches) it is better organized with them.
		The rite used by the Jacobite sect in Syria and by the Catholic Syrians is in its origin simply the old rite of Antioch in the Syriac language.
		The Maronite Rite is merely a Romanized adaptation of that of the West Syrians.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/14417a.htm (1691 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: East Syrian Rite
		In the Eastern Rite at low Mass the elememts are put on the altar before the incensing.
		Brightman, in his "Liturgies Eastern and Western", includes Chaldean and Malabar Catholics and Nestorians under "Persian Rite", and Bishop Arthur Maclean of Moray and Ross (Anglican) who is the best living authority on the existing Nestorians, calls them "East Syrians", which is perhaps the most satisfactory term.
		The Malabar Rite was revised in a Catholic direction by Aleixo de Menezes, Archbishop of Goa, and the revision was authorized by the Synod of Diamper in 1599.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/14413a.htm (4161 words)

	Organization. (from Eastern rite church) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The supreme head of the Eastern rite churches is the pope.
		any of a group of Eastern Christian churches that trace their origins to various ancient national or ethnic Christian bodies in the East but have established union (hence Eastern rite churches were in the past often called Uniates) or canonical communion with the Roman Apostolic See and, thus, with the Roman Catholic church.
		The churches in Western Europe, under the authority of the pope at Rome, separated from the churches in the Eastern Roman (or Byzantine) Empire, under the authority of the patriarch (bishop) of Constantinople.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-2003?tocId=2003 (772 words)

	Religion: Eastern Rite Churches
		Historically, the Orthodox lived in the eastern provinces of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and were ethnically primarily of Belarusian and Ukrainian.
		Following the fall of the Patriarchate of Constantinople to the Muslims, and the creation by Tsar Feodor in concert with the Patriarch Jeremiah of Constantinople of a Patriarchate of Moscow, the religious allegiance of the Orthodox took on a strong political coloring.
		Following the 1944 shift in Poland's frontiers and the annexation of a large portion of what had been Eastern Poland by the Soviet Union, the number of the faithful shrunk from the 3.8 million noted by Poland's 1931 census to the current much smaller number.
	info-poland.buffalo.edu /religion/easternrite.html (795 words)

	Comments on the Western Rite
		The sense of unity in the Diocese is for the faith, not the rite.
		It has nothing to do with rite; it has to do with your witness to the truth and those things which you are not only willing to sacrifice, but are in actuality offering up in sacrifice for the truth.
		The faith that you hold, combined with the rite in which you practice that faith, is more important than anything else.
	www.westernorthodox.com /basil (1129 words)

	St. Michael the Archangel Ukrainian Catholic Church [Rites]
		The Eastern Rites consist of the Christian communities whose centers were Constantinople, Jerusalem, Antioch, and Alexandra.
		However, each Rite maintains the Sacraments (Mysteries), the fundamental teachings of the Church (the Incarnation, Resurrection, the Blessed Trinity,...) and stresses the common Apostolic Tradition.
		Catholics of various Rites are encouraged to worship in each other's Churches, including receiving the Sacramental Mysteries of Reconciliation (Penance) and the Holy Eucharist.
	www.crosslink.net /~hrycak/stmkrite.html (350 words)

	Eastern Rite
		At the same time, Latin Rite Bishops are obliged to care for those of the Eastern Rites that may be living within their dioceses.
		In the Eastern Rite, the priest (and only a priest) is the proper administrator of the sacrament.
		In the Latin Rite Church, the parties to the marriage are the proper administrators of the sacrament.
	www.canonlawprofessionals.com /eastern_rite.htm (694 words)

	The Byzantine Forum: Annulments in the Eastern Rite
		Eastern Catholics continued with ecclesiastical divorces up until the late 1800s, at which point Rome made it a point to stop this practice among us.
		Since it is the priest not the couple who marries, it is impossible from the Eastern view to have an invalid marriage.
		Are annulments in the Eastern Catholic Church considered a latinization?
	www.byzcath.org /bboard/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=4;t=001387;p=1 (1094 words)

	Viewpoint: Mating and dating among Eastern Rite priests
		The most piquing discrepancy was that on Saturday night the Latin Rite seminarians went to the chapel to read the Lives of the Saints, but the Eastern Rite seminarians took off to visit families with marriageable girls, since they had to tie the knot before ordination.
		In the former Czechoslovakia, where I was ordained, there were plenty of Eastern Rite Catholics who acknowledged the jurisdiction of Rome.
		By ROBERT G. uring the spring of 2002, the church was confronted with the spectacle of some clergy who had sadly failed in their commitments in chastity by engaging in immoral relations with minors.
	www.natcath.org /NCR_Online/archives2/2004b/041604/041604r.htm (832 words)

	Eastern Rite Churches
		Eastern Rite Catholics move headquarters to Kiev, stoking tension with Orthodox church
		Eastern Rite Catholics demand the return of property seized by the communists
		Eastern rite cardinal says married priests might resolve shortage but would create problems
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0001465.html (253 words)

	Encyclopedia: Eastern Rite
		The patriarchates of the Eastern Rite churches of Antioch, Alexandria, and Jerusalem were created in parallel with Orthodox Patriarchates that had operated independently from Rome for many centuries.
		Western (or "Latin-Rite") Catholic bishops are subject directly to the Pope, but most Eastern-rite Catholic bishops are subject indirectly to the pope via one of six Catholic "patriarchs of the east", who sit in Alexandria, Antioch, Antelias, Baghdad, Beirut, and Damascus but who acknowledge the primacy of the Pope.
		The Eastern Rites are the rites used by many of the ancient Christian churches of Eastern Europe and the Middle East that are in the Catholic Communion but do not follow the Latin Rite.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Eastern-Rite (253 words)

	Eastern Rite Holy Days
		Employees who are Catholics of an Eastern Rite may apply for time off for religious observance on each of the Holy Days Christmas and Good Friday (Eastern Rite).
		Upon the application from an Eastern Rite employee, the Director of Education will grant time off for the religious observance of Christmas and Easter.
	www.tcdsb.org /policyregister/HM01.html (77 words)

	The Eastern Catholic Net Ring
		All Eastern Catholic sites which are in union with the Pope are welcome and encouraged to apply, so that all who travel this ring can discover the rich variety of non-Roman rites in the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church.
		Such sites may, of course, be wonderful, and the Latin Rite is the sister of all the Eastern Rites, for both are under the same Holy Father.
		Neither the Eastern Catholic Net Ring, its Ringmanager, the members of the ring or Ringsurf.com is liable for any member that changes his or her site after being accepted into the ring.
	home.nyc.rr.com /mysticalrose/eastcath.html (571 words)

	Catholic World News : Eastern-rite Church set to ordain married men
		However, the Vatican has shown no enthusiasm for a return to married priests among the Eastern-rite churches-- at least in countries where the Roman rite, with its celibate clergy, predominates.
		The new laws for the Ruthenian Church were promulgated in response to the new Code of Canon Law for the Eastern Catholic churches, which call upon the "sui juris" churches-- those which enact their own laws-- to set up particular statutes clarifying the matters which are not covered in the Code.
		The new laws were promulgated by Metropolitan Archbishop Judson Procyk, in his capacity as leader of the Byzantine-rite body.
	www.cwnews.com /news/viewrec.cfm?RefNum=8277 (263 words)

	Eastern Catholicism
		Most of the Eastern Rites came about when members of various Eastern Churches (Orthodox, Coptic, etc.) decided to return to union with the Pope of Rome.
		All the rites of the Catholic Church also hold the same dogmas; they are unequivocally united in faith and moral teachings, for they are all part of one Holy Mother Church.
		Each of these rites has equal status in the Church with the Roman Rite and with one another.
	www.geocities.com /athens/acropolis/5743/eastern.html (585 words)

	American Church Supply
		American Church Supply - manufacturers of Eastern Rite vestments.
		We sell to all Orthodox Churches and Byzantine Rite Churches.
		American Church Supply imports metalcrafts from Greece that are used in the Orthodox Church.
	www.americanchurchsupply.com (112 words)

	Eastern Rite Holy Days
		These Holy Days shall be marked on the school calendar as "Board holidays" for the Eastern Rite schools.
		The TCDSB shall declare Christmas and Good Friday (Eastern Rite) a "Board holiday" for the Eastern Rite schools.
		BM p 188, 16 Oct 86; BM p 16, Jan 69.[cf Eastern Rite Employees' Holy Days H.M.01]
	www.tcdsb.org /policyregister/S03.html (100 words)

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