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Eastern Catholic Churches

The Eastern Catholic Churches or Oriental Catholic Churches, also known as the Eastern-Rite Catholic Churches, Eastern Rite Catholicism, or simply the Eastern Churches, are 23 Eastern Christian autonomous (sui iuris) particular churches of the Catholic Church in full communion with the pope in Rome. Although they are distinct theologically, liturgically…

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Branched from
Catholic Church
Classification
Catholic
Language
Koine Greek, Syriac, Hebrew, Aramaic, Geʽez, Coptic, Classical Armenian, Church Slavonic, Arabic, and vernaculars (Albanian, Hungarian, Romanian, Georgian, Malayalam, etc.)
Liturgy
Eastern Catholic liturgies
Members
18 million
Orientation
Eastern Christianity

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related to Emergence of the churches · 30
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related to Eastern patriarchs and major archbishops · 28
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related to United States · 24
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related to Variants of organizational structure · 22
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related to background · 17
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related to Juridical status · 15
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related to Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches · 11
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related to Second Vatican Council · 10
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related to Uniate · 10
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related to Clerical celibacy · 8
Eastern Catholic Churches → Eastern, Eastern Catholic Church, In, Ukraine, Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Western, Western Christian, Within

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Eastern Catholic ChurchesBranched fromCatholic Church1.00infobox
Eastern Catholic ChurchesClassificationCatholic1.00infobox
Eastern Catholic ChurchesLanguageKoine Greek, Syriac, Hebrew, Aramaic, Geʽez, Coptic, Classical Armenian, Church Slavonic, Arabic, and vernaculars (Albanian, Hungarian, Romanian, Georgian, Malayalam, etc.)1.00infobox
Eastern Catholic ChurchesLiturgyEastern Catholic liturgies1.00infobox
Eastern Catholic ChurchesMembers18 million1.00infobox
Eastern Catholic ChurchesOrientationEastern Christianity1.00infobox
Eastern Catholic ChurchesPolityEpiscopal1.00infobox
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Eastern Catholic ChurchesScriptureBible (Septuagint, Peshitta)1.00infobox
Eastern Catholic ChurchesSeparated fromVarious autocephalous churches of the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and Church of the East throughout the centuries1.00infobox
Eastern Catholic ChurchesStructureCommunion1.00infobox
Eastern Catholic ChurchesTheologyCatholic theology and Eastern theology1.00infobox
Eastern Catholic Churchesis aDicastery for the Eastern Churches0.90text

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