Eastern Bishops and Roman Bishops?

[UnityofTrinity]

I’ve always thought that each region must only have one bishop, regardless of what rite. For an example, Western Europe where people are mostly Latin Rite would have Latin Bishops. Eastern Europe and further East where people belong to the Eastern Rite will have bishops that adhere to Eastern traditions, but now when cultural difusion is so widespread, esp. in America, there can be many bishops per region if that region has many different rites.

Why does this happen? I mean if there are 2 or 3 bishops in one region, do they have influence on one another? What about the archbishops? Since archbishops are Latin, shouldn’t there also be Archbishops that are also Eastern? Then we must move to Eastern Popes as well.

 

[Vico]

I’ve always thought that each region must only have one bishop, regardless of what rite. For an example, Western Europe where people are mostly Latin Rite would have Latin Bishops. Eastern Europe and further East where people belong to the Eastern Rite will have bishops that adhere to Eastern traditions, but now when cultural difusion is so widespread, esp. in America, there can be many bishops per region if that region has many different rites.

Why does this happen? I mean if there are 2 or 3 bishops in one region, do they have influence on one another? What about the archbishops? Since archbishops are Latin, shouldn’t there also be Archbishops that are also Eastern? Then we must move to Eastern Popes as well.

Because they are different ritual Churches they have different hierarchy. The Eastern Churches also have their own body of canon law CCEO since 1990. The hierarchy of each ritual Church is bound to different church laws (sui iuris), although there are common elements of the universal Church, such as the Supreme Pontiff with Roman Curia, including the Congregation for Oriental Churches. In each region there are conferences of bishops across all ritual Churches in that area, for example in the USA there is the USCCB including region XV for the Eastern Churches. Region XV of the USCCB covers the entire United States and its territories and possessions.

Eastern Bishops in the USCCB receive annual grants to individual Eastern Catholic Churches for use in their evangelization programs.

In the USA there are the following Eastern Churches with their own eparchs and exarchs:

USA Eastern Catholic 2008 Memberships

1. Chaldean CC:
   Eparchy of Saint Peter the Apostle of San Diego, USA – 40200
   Eparchy of Saint Thomas the Apostle of Detroit, USA – 101000
2. Ruthenian Byzantine CC (also Croatian, Hungarian, Slovak, Italo-Albanian):
   Metropolitan Archeparchy of Pittsburgh, USA – 59484
   Eparchy of Parma, USA – 12328
   Eparchy of Passaic, USA – 20258
   Eparchy of Van Nuys, USA – 2795
3. Syro-Malabar CC:
   Eparchy of St Thomas of Chicago, USA – 85000
4. Maronite CC:
   Eparchy of Our Lady of Lebanon of Los Angeles, USA – 41592
   Eparchy of Saint Maron of Brooklyn NY, USA – 33000
5. Ukrainian Greek CC:
   Metropolitan Archeparchy of Philadelphia, USA – 22428
   Eparchy of Saint Josaphat in Parma, USA – 10862
   Eparchy of Saint Nicholas of Chicago, USA – 10500
   Eparchy of Stamford, USA – 16873
6. Armenian CC:
   Eparchy of Our Lady of Nareg, New York (US and Canada) – 36000
7. Melkite Greek CC:
   Eparchy of Newton, USA – 26704
8. Syrian CC:
   Our Lady of Deliverance of Newark, New Jersey – 13436
9. Syro-Malankara CC:
   Exarchy of United States of America, Hempstead, NY, USA – 10000
10. Romanian Greek CC:
    Eparchy of Saint George’s in Canton, Ohio, USA – 5800

 

[malphono]

Isn’t this thread essentially the same as the one [thread=531144](Different bishops per region?)[/thread] that was moved to the EC forum yesterday?