How many types of Liturgies are there?

[Dogmatic]

I’m curious. OF, EF, Greek Liturgy from Constantinople, Maronite from Antioch… Coptic? Where can I learn about all the different styles?

 

[ConstantineTG]

I’m curious. OF, EF, Greek Liturgy from Constantinople, Maronite from Antioch… Coptic? Where can I learn about all the different styles?

Here… oltv.tv/id25.html

 

[Dogmatic]

You’re so helpful ConstantineTG. Thanks!

 

[Spirithound]

I’m not sure you could ever get an exhaustive list. The term “liturgy” can refer to a multitude of different rituals, where a Mass may or may not be celebrated.

Now, perhaps you’re more interested in sticking with the different Masses in the different rites. That’s a good study too. I don’t know any books offhand, but you could probably do an internet search to find a few names of liturgies, and then maybe hit the ritual books explaining them?
God bless!

 

[henrikhank]

I think you mean (Liturgical) Rites, not Liturgies.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Liturgical_Rites

 

[Lancer]

Here is EWTN’s info…overview…on Rites and Churches…then go to link for a very nice list/explanation…a well done article.
Pax Christi

ewtn.com/expert/answers/catholic_rites_and_churches.htm

CATHOLIC RITES AND CHURCHES

Christ, having been lifted up from the earth has drawn all men to Himself. Rising from the dead He sent His life–giving Spirit upon His disciples and through Him has established His Body which is the Church as the universal sacrament of salvation. Sitting at the right hand of the Father, He is continually active in the world that He might lead men to the Church and through it join them to Himself and that He might make them partakers of His glorious life by nourishing them with His own Body and Blood. [Vatican Council II, Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen gentium 48]

RITES

A Rite represents an ecclesiastical, or church, tradition about how the sacraments are to be celebrated. Each of the sacraments has at its core an essential nature which must be satisfied for the sacrament to be confected or realized. This essence – of matter, form and intention – derives from the divinely revealed nature of the particular sacrament. It cannot be changed by the Church. Scripture and Sacred Tradition, as interpreted by the Magisterium, tells us what is essential in each of the sacraments (2 Thes. 2:15).

When the apostles brought the Gospel to the major cultural centers of their day the essential elements of religious practice were inculturated into those cultures. This means that the essential elements were clothed in the symbols and trappings of the particular people, so that the rituals conveyed the desired spiritual meaning to that culture. In this way the Church becomes all things to all men that some might be saved (1 Cor. 9:22).

There are** three major groupings of Rites based on this initial transmission of the faith**,** the Roman, the Antiochian (Syria) and the Alexandrian (Egypt). Later on the Byzantine **derived as a major Rite from the Antiochian, under the influence of St. Basil and St. John Chrysostom. From these four derive the over 20 liturgical Rites present in the Church today.