I think it’s alot easier…i think @Phillip_Rolfes could answer this casue he went from Latin to Ruthenian and eventually, to maronite rite…there are definitely others, like @Dochawk and @ziapueblo
I actually have more of an interest in the Malankara Catholic Church/Byzantine Church. (but I’m not born into it).
I like Maronite, Malankara, and Malabar!
It is less likely for an eastern Catholic transfer to Latin Catholic church to be approved. This is because there is a canon to preserve the eastern churches. But it could happen.
I’m EC. but I love the TLM, got a particular interest over last year. shucks, looks like I can’t be Latin anyway.
Being declined in the 21st century is very rare in either direction. I’ve heard, only on CAF, that it happens sometimes, but I’ve never heard a report of being denied.
but it doesn’t really go there any more; it’s now just the two bishops involved (I think this change was a decade or so ago).
In me experience, most just attend different churches, and rarely bother with a formal change, particularly so within Byzantine usage.
I come from a heavily latinised EC church.
You must not be aware that the authority over eastern and Latin Catholics in the “eastern regions” is that of the Congregation for Oriental Churches. They have and do prevent transfers between eastern sui iuris churches.Vico:
Being declined in the 21st century is very rare in either direction. I’ve heard, only on CAF, that it happens sometimes, but I’ve never heard a report of being denied.
Today, the process is the same in both direction. If someone’s priest verifies that he has been an active member of that congregation for a period of years, both bishops will approve.
I’ve also never heard of someone switching EC to EC. I suppose it happens; I just haven’t heard of it.
Also, it can only be done once, but can be undone. This is why I’ve never formally petitioned–I would switch to melkite, but they don’t have the presence here (although I’m on the planning committee for the Melkite outreach here).
but it doesn’t really go there any more; it’s now just the two bishops involved (I think this change was a decade or so ago).
Also, until some point in the 20th century, it was only possible to switch to LC. I think that it was Oriental Lumen that reversed this misguided, bigoted, and paternalistic rule.
The deacon, actually. There priest only reads in his absence.
singular, the epistle, on Sunday. The lector reads these. Since they are hard to find these days, they are usually changed by someone with cantor training (also usually not an actual cantor). Similarly, men fill in for the subdeacons on the altar to serve.
*snork*. *sputter*.
that seems to be the source of your misunderstanding . . .
No, there was permission to transfer upon the approval of two bishops with overlapping territory even in 1990 CCEO (and 1992 Latin rescript - AAS 85 [1993] 81) and that is also described in the book I quoted from. The authority of the Congregation of the Eastern Churches pertains to specific areas.
