If you are eastern catholic, what rite and church are you part of?

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I’m part of the Antioch rite, my church is the West Syriac Maronite Catholic Church!
 
Byzantine rite, Melkite. Read my “religion” in the heading.

As a Maronite, you’re not a Roman Catholic - Roman Catholic means Latin-rite - but a Maronite Catholic, just as I am not a Roman Catholic, but a Melkite Catholic (canonically) who wishes to be Roman.

“Catholic” is the name of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church. The prefix is the name of the rite - Melkites and Maronites are just as Catholic as Romans.
 
Your correct I’m not a Roman Catholic, when I put roman catholic it’s because since we are in communion with the church it makes us part of the roman catholic church.

Sorry for the miss understanding.

God bless
 
Khalid said:
As a Maronite, you’re not a Roman Catholic - Roman Catholic means Latin-rite - but a Maronite Catholic, just as I am not a Roman Catholic, but a Melkite Catholic (canonically) who wishes to be Roman.
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In the strict definition of the term, Roman Catholic is the Catholic in the Diocese of Rome. And Roman Catholic Church, is the Diocese of Rome.

ewtn.com/faith/teachings/churb3.htm
 
Most Eastern Catholics prefix “Roman” as a matter of pride. 🙂

I am from the Oriental Church, Syro Malabar Church. We use the Chaldean rite, adapted to the life and culture of India. Some scholars say, Syro Malabar Church was always in communion with Rome, from time Apostle Thomas founded it, till today.
 
As I learned here, some people take it the wrong way when one confuses rites, or calls the entire Church the “Roman Catholic Church”, it’s seen as excluding Easterners.

“Roman Catholic”, I believe, is the technical name for “Latin-rite”, not just “Diocese of Rome” (that would be having thousands of different prefixes based on diocese, and I would be a “Columbus Catholic” - diocese are not differentiated, rites are) as I’ve never heard of “Latin Catholics” outside of South America (i.e. Latino Roman Catholics).
 
… and I am a member of the Byzantine-Ruthenian Catholic Church.

As the name implies, we too follow the Byzantine Rite for liturgical observance, together with our Ukrainian, Russian, Belorussian, Romanian, Melkite, Hungarian, Slovak, Križevci, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Italo-Albanian, Albanian and Greek brothers and sisters (gee, I hope I didn’t forget anyone!).
 
BTW - this diagram has been in circulation for awhile - it’s a decent visual …

 
Khalid said:
“Roman Catholic”, I believe, is the technical name for “Latin-rite”, not just “Diocese of Rome” (that would be having thousands of different prefixes based on diocese, and I would be a “Columbus Catholic” - diocese are not differentiated, rites are) as I’ve never heard of “Latin Catholics” outside of South America (i.e. Latino Roman Catholics).
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Take this encyclical that infallibly declared the dogma of immaculate conception - Ineffabilis Deus (1854).

There, we have reference to both “Catholic Church”, as well as “Roman Church”. Where it says “Catholic Church”, it means the universal church in communion with Rome.

“The Catholic Church, directed by the Holy Spirit of God, is the pillar and base of truth and has ever held as divinely revealed and as contained in the deposit of heavenly revelation this doctrine.”

And where it says, “Roman Church”, I’m assuming it’s referring to the Diocese of Rome, the mother of all churches.

“These truths, so generally accepted and put into practice by the faithful, indicate how zealously the Roman Church, mother and teacher of all Churches, has continued to teach this doctrine of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin.”

In the present day Vatican documents, the term “Roman Church” has been replaced by “Roman Catholic Church”. Latin church was always addressed as the Latin church.
 
My wife and I were both baptized into the Byzantine-Ruthenian Catholic Church. We are members of a Roman Catholic parish. We love both the Roman Catholic Church and the ByzCath Church equally and are equally at home in both ;)👍😉
 
xavierakx said:
In addition, it’s debated whether some of these eastern churches were really in schism. For instance, the churches following the Chaldean rites, it’s argued, were in communion with Rome, but mistaken to be schismatic due to their close relation with the Assyrian Church.
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We Russian Greek Catholics consider that we never made any formal separation from Rome, although eventually we found that we were separated and we did seek full communion. "Even after 1054 friendly relations between East and West continued. The two parts of Christendom were not yet conscious of a great gulf of separation between them. … The dispute remained something of which ordinary Christians in the East and West were largely unaware." Bishop Kallistos (Ware)
 
I attend the liturgy in the Latin Church being one of those Byzantine in an area without a Byzantine presence but I am proud to be a cradle Byzantine Ruthenian Catholic.🙂
 
kitkatty said:
I attend the liturgy in the Latin Church being one of those Byzantine in an area without a Byzantine presence but I am proud to be a cradle Byzantine Ruthenian Catholic.🙂
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I take it you don’t live in the metro Detroit area. I did a few years back, and was a member of the St. Basil parish in Sterling Heights. I miss that parish and my dear friends there very much!
 
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