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twf,And if you follow the link that Crusader provided, you’ll see that there are Eastern Catholic Churches of other rites as well, over 20 Eastern Catholic Churches altogether. Some came from the Eastern Orthodox Churches, some from the Oriental Orthodox Churches, and from the Assyrian Church.
I do have one problem with that article though…it talks about how the Syro-Malabar Church and the Chaldean Church came out of the Nestorian heresy…but the Church has since signed a common declaration on Christology with the Assyrian Church…they are no longer considered heretics (as far as Christology is concerned). Likewise, EWTN seems to label the Oriental Churches as adhering to the monophysite heresy. Likewise, the Catholic Church has signed a common declaration on Christology with the Oriental Churches. (And the Oriental Churches themselves strongly object to the monophysite label, likewise with the Assyrians and the Nestorian label). It’s very un-ecumenical.
You’re absolutely correct in your characterization of the EWTN article as having erroneous info regarding the Assyrian Church of the East. It’s also inaccurate in listing a Czech Byzantine Church; the Czech jurisdiction is actually not a Church sui iuris; it is a Ruthenian exarchate, created from the Eparchy of Mukachevo. What it labels as the Krizevci Catholic Church is actually the Croatian Catholic Church; Krizevci is merely the geographic designation of the eparchy. It also fails to list the Byzantine Georgian Catholic Church.
All in all, it’s far from my favorite reference site for Eastern Catholicism. The CNEWA link that you provided is a much better source of info.
Many years,
Neil