If I were dying and there were no Latin Rite priest present, could I be anointed and buried in the Eastern Rites?

[JDGaney]

Just curious.

 

[babochka]

Of course. Even if a Latin Rite priest were available, there would be no problem with you receiving the sacraments from an Eastern Rite priest and having a Byzantine Rite funeral.

 

[Miserissima]

Eastern Catholic? Certainly.

Eastern Orthodox? I would think, “Yes,” especially if you didn’t have access to your own church. But I’ll let an Orthodox brethren weigh in on that.

 

[Seraphim73]

Eastern Catholic? Certainly.

Eastern Orthodox? I would think, “Yes,” especially if you didn’t have access to your own church. But I’ll let an Orthodox brethren weigh in on that.

If you were in danger of death you could probably find an Orthodox priest to confess you. Finding a bishop that would allow an Orthodox funeral in an Orthodox cemetary would be a different issue entirely. Of course anything is no matter how unlikely is possible. It would depend a lot on where you were.

 

[CB_Catholic]

When my husband had a stroke and was in the ER facing death I asked for a Catholic priest to administer the Sacrament and the priest that came was Byzantine. A Catholic priest is a Catholic priest.

My husband recovered fully, thank God, due to timely and up to date medical care, and, of course the Anointing. Most people, physicians included, considered it somewhat of a miracle, but that is quite a story.

You most likely, however, would be buried from a Latin parish if you were not a member of an EC parish.