Eastern Catholic Rites and rel. w/Orthodox churches

[miamaximaculpa]

Question

How is the relationship between the Eastern Catholic (Melkite/Maronite, et. al) rites and the Orthodox?

Cordial? Filial? Acrimonious?

I understand there really is no such thing as Orthodoxy but OrthodoxIES, and it is probably not answerable completely, but in the aggregate?

Thanks

 

[PrayForMeStJude]

Depends where they are located. From what I have gleaned around here, the Melkites seem to be the warmest towards the Orthodox, and the feeling is probably mutual.

Elsewhere, however, the situation can get quite tense in Ukraine and Russia due to old “territorial” disputes and some political leftovers from the Cold War.

 

[ConstantineTG]

The UGCC has good relations with the non-canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Churches. Of course all of them want the same thing, a national Ukrainian Church. That is why they don’t like the Moscow Patriarchate Ukrainian Orthodox Church as much.

 

[Aramis]

The Chaldeans (Catholic) and the Assyrian Church of the East (Oriental Orthodox) have limited intercommunion, by treaty.
Same for the Syrian Orthodox and Syrian Catholics.

The Antichian Orthodox and the Melkites vary widely by location, but generally, they admit the other to communion so long as it’s kept fairly quiet.

The Byzantine-Ruthenian Catholic Metropolia and the ACROD officially do not have intercommunion, but in practice… as with the Antiochians and Melkites, the practical matter is one of limited intercommunion when one has family on both sides of the split.

The Armenians don’t even really seem to consider the split terribly important; they never broke communion with each other across the Catholic – Apostolic Orthodox divide, frequently share deacons, sometimes have priestly concelebration (despite officially disallowing concelebration), and routinely admit other Catholics to communion in the Armenian Apostolic Orthodox, and the AAO not prohibiting their faithful from receiving in the non-Armenian Catholic Churches… There are some interesting differences (Female deacons, general absolution before the Badarak), but as far as non-Catholics, they are pretty much the most accepting, and as close as an Orthodox church gets to being in union without being “under the pope”…

 

[OrthodoxJosh]

As to your comment on there being “orthodoxies”; there is only one true Eastern Orthodox Church. Whether its greek, russian, ukranian, estonian, albanian, georgian, antiochian etc. They are all part of the one Holy Orthodox Catholic Church. They are all just local churches.

 

[BVT]

Question

How is the relationship between the Eastern Catholic (Melkite/Maronite, et. al) rites and the Orthodox?

Thanks

Do Maronite’s consider Syrian Orthodox(Non Chalcedonian ) or Greek orthodox of Antioch (chalcedonian) as their orthodox counterpart?

 

[Vico]

Do Maronite’s consider Syrian Orthodox(Non Chalcedonian ) or Greek orthodox of Antioch (chalcedonian) as their orthodox counterpart?

I believe these are the three expressions and their groupings by Church.

Christ in two natures: Maronite, Melkite

Christ from two natures: Syrian Orthodox, Syrian Catholic

Union of two natures with their qnome in one prosporon: Assyrian Church of the East and Chaldean Catholic