Eastern Catholic churches

The Eastern Catholic churches or catholic Eastern Churches or Eastern Églises uniates are Églises of Eastern rites attached to the Roman Catholic church. These Churches were born from the effort of the Roman Catholic church with “(D) linking” the “separate Churches”.

The orthodoxe Churches dispute the existence of these Churches. They speak about a proselytism in contradition with the canonical right written following the first councils of the undivided Church (before the schism between orthodoxe and catholics in 1054).

There exists with the Roman Curie a Congrégation for the Eastern Churches.

Name

The Eastern Catholic churches are also known under other names:

• catholic Eastern Churches

• Catholic churches uniates
• Churches uniates

History

• 1216 Union in Rome of the Church Maronite

• 1553 then 1830 Union in Rome of the Church chaldéenne
• 1990 Promulgation of the Code of the guns of the Eastern Churches by the pope Jean-Paul II

The research of the unit

In its research of the unit, the Roman Catholic church had (successively or simultaneously) various approaches or attitudes:

• the dialog at the top with the “separate” Churches

• the constitution of Eastern Churches “plain” in Rome, by rallying of part of the clergy and the faithful ones of the “separate” Churches

• establishment of hierarchy and the development of Latin communities

The two last attitudes were lived very negatively by the other Churches: they saw there a hostile behavior which is, indeed, in total contradiction with the guns of the Church prohibiting the presence of two bishops of different apostolic tradition in the same place.

Today, officially, it is the oecumenical dialog which precedes, in spite of an ambiguous behavior of Jean-Paul II who has, for example, instituted évêchés in Russia.

Churches of clean right ( sui iuris )

Various Churches

Patriarchal Churches

• the Church Maronite (Seat in Lebanon)

• the Catholic church copte (Seat in Egypt)
• the Armenian Catholic church (Seat in Lebanon)
• the syriaque Catholic church (Seat in Lebanon)
• the Church Greek-catholic melkite (Seat in Syria)
• the Catholic church chaldéenne (Seat in Iraq)

The major Churches archiépiscopales

• the Church Ukrainian Greek-catholic

• the Catholic church syro-malabare
• the Catholic church syro-malankare
• the Church Rumanian Greek-catholic

Metropolitan Churches

• the Byzantine Catholic church

• the Ethiopian Catholic church

Other Churches and communities

• the Church Greek-catholic ruthene

• the Church Slovak Greek-catholic
• the Church Hungarian Greek-catholic
• the Church Bulgarian Greek-catholic
• the Church Croatian Greek-catholic
• the Church Greek-catholic serbo-Montenegrin
• the Church Greek-catholic Macedonian
• the Church Czech Greek-catholic
• the Church Russian Greek-catholic
• the Church Belorusse Greek-catholic
• the Church Albanian Greek-catholic
• the italo-Albanian Catholic church
• the Church Greek-catholic Helene
• the the Community Greek-catholic géorgienne

See too

Internal bonds

• Christian of saint Thomas

• List of articles on the Christians of the East
• Latin Church of Jerusalem

External bonds

• Catholic Circle Syriaque
• Vatican Site - Congregation
• Vatican Site - Decree of 1964
• Personal site in French
• the Work of the East
• CNEWA - Catholic Near East Welfare Association
• Code of the guns of the Eastern Churches, with agreement IntraText
• Pro Directs
• ECPA Catholiques Eastern California
• general Informations towards the Catholic churches of Byzantine rite
• From East to West
• Orientale Lumen - Eastern Catholic Churches
• Byzantine Catholic Church in America

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