Can the Pope ordain an Eastern Rite Priest?

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This may be a silly question, but I was thinking about it today for some reason. My guess is yes he can because he is the head of the Universal Church, however I could be wrong 🤷

Thanks and God bless,
ZP
 
Yes, and he can celebrate any Rite he likes.

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ziapueblo said:
Thanks, I thought so. Has the Holy Father celebrated an Eastern Rite Liturgy since his pontificate?
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HH Pope John Paul the Second did at the Vatican in 1988 with the hierarchy of the Ukrainian Catholic Church and also on his Papal visit to Ukraine this decade.

As for HH Pope Benedict, I am drawing blanks. 😊
 
Yes he is the Pope of the whole Roman Catholic Church not just the latin rite.
 
Yes he is the Pope of the whole Roman Catholic Church not just the latin rite.
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You mean, he is the Pope of the whole Catholic Church, not just the particular Roman Church, which uses that Latin Rite.
 
StrawberryJam said:
When has he celebrated the Eastern RIte Mass? Has he ever?
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HH John Paul the Second did, as I stated in post # 4 above. I was present at the Vatican for the Ukrainian Catholic Divine Liturgy concelebrated with our bishops in 1988 at the Vatican. I was young but it was a moving experience.
 
ziapueblo said:
This may be a silly question, but I was thinking about it today for some reason. My guess is yes he can because he is the head of the Universal Church, however I could be wrong 🤷

Thanks and God bless,
ZP
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Any Catholic Bishop can ordain a priest for whatever rite that man was Ordained a deacon, or a Deacon for the rite indicated by his canonical enrollment.

For any bishop other than the pope and the man’s ordinary, it requires the ordinary’s permission to be licit (tho validity is different and can be presumed with ordination by a Catholic bishop), and the permission of the bishop whom he is to serve; the pope would be unlikely to do so without the man’s ordinary’s permission.

For that matter, an Assyrian Church of the East bishop, Eastern Orthodox Bishop, or Oriental Orthodox bishop could validly ordain a priest under the same conditions (tho the likelyhood of so doing is VERY slim, it has happened during certain suppressions).

Normally, however, a man is ordained by the bishop he is to serve.

Further, during the vacant and/or hidden see periods, several eparchial seminaries have had eastern priests ordained by roman bishops.
 
Blessed John Paul II also had celebrated the Holy Qurbana of the Syro-Malabar Church, I think it was 1988.
 
\Further, during the vacant and/or hidden see periods, several eparchial seminaries have had eastern priests ordained by roman bishops.\

Hieromartyr Theodore of Mukachevo himself ordained candidates for the Latin Church.
 
Priest, is a priest, is a priest , is a priest.

Apologies to Gertrude Stein.
 
Many years back I attended the ceremony in Boston where Cardinal Cushing ordained a bishop for an Eastern Church.

A neighboring lady was a friend of the cardinal. He gave her two tickets and told her to be sure to come - it would be her only chance to see him in that get-up [Eastern vestments]. She invited me to come, and give her a ride since it was her chauffeur’s day off.

When we got there people had red tickets, green tickets, etc. We were the only ones with white tickets - we sat right behind the Knights of Malta. Communion was Eastern style with a spoon. I had a TV camera staring down my throat when I received. 😃
 
Joe: if I understand you correctly, you are saying that the Cardinal celebrated a Byzantine liturgy? Was there no bishop of the Church Sui iuris in question available to consecrate the new bishop?
 
twf said:
Joe: if I understand you correctly, you are saying that the Cardinal celebrated a Byzantine liturgy? Was there no bishop of the Church Sui iuris in question available to consecrate the new bishop?
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Several Bishops have routinely exercised biritual faculties granted before their ordination to the episcopacy, and technically, all bishops may celebrate in any Catholic rite… custom is that they only celebrate those rites which they have either training in or parishioners from. The Bishop of Denver, nominally Roman (and originally a Roman priest) is also bishop for a parish of the Russian Catholic Church, and can be expected to serve the Byzantine HDL of St. John and HDL of St. Basil (as dictated by the Calendar). Likewise, one of the bishops in NYC. And Moscow.

ANd the Bishops of the Ethiopian Catholic Church also have Roman Rite parishes, and celebrate the Roman Mass in those, and the Ethiopian Divine Liturgy in the Ethiopian Rite Parishes.
 
Aramis said:
Several Bishops have routinely exercised biritual faculties granted before their ordination to the episcopacy, and technically, all bishops may celebrate in any Catholic rite… custom is that they only celebrate those rites which they have either training in or parishioners from. The Bishop of Denver, nominally Roman (and originally a Roman priest) is also bishop for a parish of the Russian Catholic Church, and can be expected to serve the Byzantine HDL of St. John and HDL of St. Basil (as dictated by the Calendar). Likewise, one of the bishops in NYC. And Moscow.

ANd the Bishops of the Ethiopian Catholic Church also have Roman Rite parishes, and celebrate the Roman Mass in those, and the Ethiopian Divine Liturgy in the Ethiopian Rite Parishes.
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Who in NYC?
 
twf said:
Joe: if I understand you correctly, you are saying that the Cardinal celebrated a Byzantine liturgy? Was there no bishop of the Church Sui iuris in question available to consecrate the new bishop?
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Yes, he celebrated the Eastern liturgy. I don’t remember which rite it was. I think the new bishop’s diocese was in Bridgeport CT. [This was in the late 60’s] I presume there wasn’t a bishop of the sui iuris Church readily available, but didn’tget any details. Also I don’t know if the fact he was a Cardinal made any difference in his jurisdiction.

Incidentally, it was after Hartford CT was created a separate archdiocese from Boston.
 
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