Eastern Catholic Pope?

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Just out of curiosity is it possible for an Eastern Catholic to be elected pope? And, I guess on the same note, are there any Eastern Catholics in the College of Cardnals, can there be?
 
Yes, and I think there was even recently (by that I mean the last century), but I can’t remember his name.
 
I think there were many Eastern Catholic popes in the past

its interesting to see a new one , maybe the Maronite Patriarch , he is very faithful person but I am not sure if non cardinal can be elected pope
 
This was discussed in another recent thread.

forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=629312

But basically, the answer is yes to both. Any individual of any sui iuris church within the Catholic Church may become a cleric in any sui iuris church. A Western Catholic can become an Eastern Catholic priest. One example I know is Bishop John Michael Kudrick of the Eparchy of Parma. He was initially ordained a Franciscan priest and later incardinated into the Ruthenian Church, and is now Bishop of Parma.
 
VENETI3 said:
Just out of curiosity is it possible for an Eastern Catholic to be elected pope? And, I guess on the same note, are there any Eastern Catholics in the College of Cardnals, can there be?
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This was discussed in another recent thread.

forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=629312

But basically, the answer is yes to both. Any individual of any sui iuris church within the Catholic Church may become a cleric in any sui iuris church. A Western Catholic can become an Eastern Catholic priest.

One example I know is Bishop John Michael Kudrick of the Eparchy of Parma. He was initially ordained a Franciscan priest and later incardinated into the Ruthenian Church as a Ruthenian priest, and is now Bishop of Parma.
arabic_catholic said:
I think there were many Eastern Catholic popes in the past

its interesting to see a new one , maybe the Maronite Patriarch , he is very faithful person but I am not sure if non cardinal can be elected pope
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Patriarch Béchara is eligible to be elected Pope as well. In fact, the only legal requirement is that the elect be a baptised male Catholic. If he is not already of episcopal rank, he will be consecrated as a bishop by the Dean of the College of Cardinals, but obviously Patriarch Béchara doesn’t need that.
 
VENETI3 said:
Just out of curiosity is it possible for an Eastern Catholic to be elected pope? And, I guess on the same note, are there any Eastern Catholics in the College of Cardnals, can there be?
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This was discussed in another recent thread.

forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=629312

But basically, the answer is yes to both. Any individual of any sui iuris church within the Catholic Church may become a cleric in any sui iuris church. A Western Catholic can become an Eastern Catholic priest.

One example I know is Bishop John Michael Kudrick of the Eparchy of Parma. He was initially ordained a Franciscan priest and later incardinated into the Ruthenian Church as a Ruthenian priest, and is now Bishop of Parma.
arabic_catholic said:
I think there were many Eastern Catholic popes in the past

its interesting to see a new one , maybe the Maronite Patriarch , he is very faithful person but I am not sure if non cardinal can be elected pope
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Patriarch Béchara is certainly eligible to be elected Pope as well. In fact, the only legal requirement is that the elect be a baptised male Catholic. If the elect is not already of episcopal rank, he will be consecrated as a bishop by the Dean of the College of Cardinals, but obviously Patriarch Béchara doesn’t need that.
 
Bezant said:
Yes, and I think there was even recently (by that I mean the last century), but I can’t remember his name.
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I think it had been several centuries since we had a non-Italian pope until Blessed John Paul II broke the pattern.
 
arabic_catholic said:
I think there were many Eastern Catholic popes in the past
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Indeed, there were several Popes from the East (of Greek descent) in early Church history, but the notion of being “Eastern Catholic” as we would define that today was really not applicable. The rise of Constantinople was instrumental, as election to the Papacy required the consent of the Byzantine Emperor.
 
Here is a list of the Eastern Catholic popes.
  • Pope Vigilius (537–555), former apocrisiarius
  • Pope Pelagius I (556–561), former apocrisiarius
  • Pope John III (561–574)
  • Pope Benedict I (575–579)
  • Pope Pelagius II (579–590)
  • Pope Gregory I, “the Great” (590–604), former apocrisiarius
  • Pope Sabinian (604–606), former apocrisiarius
  • Pope Boniface III (607), former apocrisiarius, likely born in Rome to a Greek father from
    Antioch
  • Pope Boniface IV (608–615)
  • Pope Adeodatus I (615–618)
  • Pope Boniface V (619–625)
  • Pope Honorius I (625–638)
  • Pope Severinus (640)
  • Pope John IV (640–642), Dalmatian, first pope born and raised east of Italy since Pope Zosimus (417–418)
  • Pope Theodore I (642–649), Greek-Palestinian
  • Pope Martin I (649–653), former apocrisiarius
  • Pope Eugene I (654–657)
  • Pope Vitalian (657–672), likely of eastern extraction (father named Anastasios)
  • Pope Adeodatus II (672–676)
  • Pope Donus (676–678)
  • Pope Agatho (678–681), Greek
  • Pope Leo II (682–683), Sicilian
  • Pope Benedict II (684–685)
  • Pope John V (685–686), Syrian
  • Pope Conon (686–687), Sicilian
  • Pope Sergius I (687–701), Syrian
  • Pope John VI (701–705), Greek
  • Pope John VII (705–707), Greek
  • Pope Sisinnius (708), Syrian
  • Pope Constantine (708–715), Syrian
  • Pope Gregory II (715–731)
  • Pope Gregory III (731–741), Syrian
  • Pope Zachary (741–752), Sicilian
 
I dont think Gregory the Great was of any Eastern Tradtion, being that he is one of Latin Fathers…
 
VENETI3 said:
I dont think Gregory the Great was of any Eastern Tradtion, being that he is one of Latin Fathers…
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Yeah I suspect the list somewhat as the source is not that relible but it was the only listI could find quickly and some on the list are truely eastern.

I just used it to show that there havebeen popes from the east but that the last was from the eigth century.
 
The Pope just made George Alencherry, archbishop of the Syro-Malabar church in India, a cardinal. Since Cardinal George Alencherry is under 80, he is eligible to vote in the next papal conclave.

Can the next Pope be from the Eastern Rite? Yes! We are all Catholic and it is the same Church 👍 It would be interesting to see how this would affect the Church as a whole, if we had an Eastern Catholic Pope.

Now, would he (Eastern Rite Pope) stay in the same Rite? or would he switch Rites to Latin? I believe he would stay in the same Rite, but I have no sources to back this up at the moment…
 
A_G said:
Now, would he (Eastern Rite Pope) stay in the same Rite? or would he switch Rites to Latin? I believe he would stay in the same Rite, but I have no sources to back this up at the moment…
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I believe he would be incardinated into the Latin Church because as Pope he is the Bishop of Rome, which is a diocese of the Latin Church. The same goes for western priests administering to eastern parishes and vice versa.
 
Filii_Dei said:
I believe he would be incardinated into the Latin Church because as Pope he is the Bishop of Rome, which is a diocese of the Latin Church. The same goes for western priests administering to eastern parishes and vice versa.
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This makes sense. I believe you are right. In any case, we are all the same religion, still Catholic!
 
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