Are different Rites in the same diocese?

[5Loaves]

Is this true even with very, very small **Eastern Orthodox **congregations? In my town, we have an Orthodox building right next to the oldest Roman Catholic church in town. It’s a very small building, and they use the Roman Catholic church for the Liturgy of the Hours (which is awesome) and their own services. I have always thought that this was really neat, as I love seeing such unity, and they almost seem more knowledgeable about our parish than the actual Roman Catholics, haha!

So even if it is a very small number of people (I’d say maybe 100 at the very most, though I haven’t seen more than 20 gathered together at one time) they would have an Orthodox bishop presiding over them?

While some of our Eastern Catholic Churches *sui iuris * are currently under a Latin Bishop, all Eastern Orthodox churches being Orthodox would be under Orthodox bishops or metropolitans.

It is very nice that this Eastern Orthodox parish is able to use the Latin Church for their services. I have heard of those rare occasions where Catholics have worshiped in an Orthodox temple for lack of our own space. Others may clarify, but it is my understanding that these situations the priest, Catholic or Orthodox, bring his own antimension on which to celebrate.

 

[Vico]

There is much overlap in the USA with the Latin Catholic Church bishops and the eastern Catholic hierarchs:

  1) Ukrainian Greek CC:

Metropolitan Archeparchy of Philadelphia, PA
Eparchy of Stamford, CT
Eparchy of Saint Nicholas of Chicago, IL
Eparchy of Saint Josaphat in Parma, Ohio
2) Byzantine (Ruthenian) CC:
Metropolitan Archeparchy of Pittsburgh, PA
Eparchy of Passaic, New Jersey
Eparchy of Parma, Ohio
Eparchy of Holy Protection of Mary of Phoenix, AZ
3) Maronite CC:
Eparchy of Saint Maron of Brooklyn, NY
Eparchy of Our Lady of Lebanon of Los Angeles, CA
4) Melkite Greek CC:
Eparchy of Newton, MA
5) Armenian CC:
Eparchy of Our Lady of Nareg, New York (USA and Canada)
6) Chaldean CC:
Eparchy of Saint Thomas the Apostle of Detroit, MI
Eparchy of Saint Peter the Apostle of San Diego, CA
7) Romanian Greek CC:
Eparchy of Saint George’s in Canton, Ohio
8) Syrian CC:
Eparchy of Our Lady of Deliverance of Newark, New Jersey
9) Syro-Malabar CC:
Eparchy of St Thomas of Chicago, IL
10) Syro-Malankara CC:
Exarchy of United States of America (Hempstead, NY)

And then all the other eastern Catholics without their own jurisdiction in the USA are in the care of a specified hierarch or bishop of and eastern or Latin Catholic Church. That would be one of the other 12 Churches sui iuris.

 

[dochawk]

Yes, quite so. The general rule is: where a Church does not have its own diocese (“eparchy” if you will), any parishes of that Church in a particular country are under the jurisdiction of local Latin Ordinary. For example, there are two Coptic CC parishes in the US, both of which are technically under the jurisdiction of the local Latin Ordinary. The same, I believe, true for the small handful of Russian CC congregations here.

It can also happen (and does in a few cases), again where a Church has not its own diocese, that parishes of such a Church come under the jurisdiction of another Eastern Church. There is, IIRC, one Italo-Greek (aka Italo-Albanian) parish in the US which (by agreement) falls under the jurisdiction of one of the Ruthenian Eparchies. So, too, again IIRC, are the few Hungarian CC parishes here.

It’s about 10 miles from here, Our Lady of Wisdom. It’s our of our Eparchy, the Eparchy formerly known as Van Nuys, now the Protection of Our Lade Eparchy of Phoenix, or some such.

Our Eparchy helped build the place, they don’t have enough churches to raise one (seems to call for five), and so it’s part of ours. They even useqful our books (for some reon, with two parishes and a couple of missions, they didn’t translate for themselves ).

Anyway, many current RC dioceses, including the local one, are very supportive of the EC. Bishop Pepe came to Fr. Marcus’ ordination here in Ruhr parish, and then hired him almost full time .

OK, the Latin bishops like to hire our priests. This works well for both, typically–the RC get a desperately needed priest, while a small EC parish doesn’t pay a salary and puts it to the b uiidng fund. Oddly, he had Fr. Marcus working in one of his parishes for months before issuing him bi-ritual faculties.

In the future, unified dioces might be conceivable again, but that’s fairly far down the road.

hawk