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Medical_Student
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Does anyone think new rites can be created? China for example, I hear there are many underground Catholics? Africa, the fastest growing location for Catholics?
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phil19034
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It’s possible. A new Rite would most likely first come out of a new “Use,” like the Anglican Use of the Roman Rite. Uses can become their own Rite once enough change between them have transpired.
I don’t know if the Zaire Use of the Roman Rite is currently valid or not, but it was created in the 1980s
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaire_Use
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Thomas48
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Do you mean rite or a particular sui juris church? It is impossible to create a new rite, the authentic rites of apostolic lineage have been established since the earliest centuries of the Church. These rites are as follows: Alexandrian, West Syriac, Armenian, East Syriac, Byzantine, and Latin. These six rites also have minor branched rites such as the Mozarabic within the Latin Rite. The only way that a new rite could be recognized is if an Apostle of Christ or an Apostle of an Apostle had gone to China or Africa during the spread of Christianity and developed a liturgy and a set of of authentic religious traditions and customs to accompany this liturgy. One would also have to put into consideration that this recognition would be a large spectacle because this community would have had to been hiding from the world for centuries 
. However like Brother Phil stated, the recognition of a usage of a particular rite is perhaps possible like in the case of Anglicans.
. However like Brother Phil stated, the recognition of a usage of a particular rite is perhaps possible like in the case of Anglicans.
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SyroMalankara
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It’s possible that there is some sort of hidden Chaldeo-Chinese community. The Assyrian Church did have missionaries in China for some centuries.
The possibility of a USAGE, not a Rite being used in China is also possible - however this would take centuries of a Rite being celebrated locally. As I understand it, the Latin EF Mass is very popular in China, as is a very solemn form of the OF.
The possibility of a USAGE, not a Rite being used in China is also possible - however this would take centuries of a Rite being celebrated locally. As I understand it, the Latin EF Mass is very popular in China, as is a very solemn form of the OF.
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Thomas48
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This is true, I read this concept of missionaries a while back, I also read there was an idea that St. Thomas had traveled all the way to China. However if this community exists today I do not think its usage of the Assyrian Rite would be veritable. Without contact from the Assyrian Church, I’m certain that if such a community exists, it would have a very diluted usage of East Syriac Rite to a great level, perhaps not even identifiable. This small community would have also had to have very great resilience from the tremendous cultural, political, and religious changes China endured throughout the centuries.
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janeway529
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I wonder if any of the liturgical innovations that Matteo Ricci introduced in China are still practiced in some form or could be revived.
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Vico
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The (Chaldean) Church of the East once extended to China, Mongolia, and Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan) , besides where it still exists in India. It seems though that only the Latin Church is establishing jurisdiction there now. Harbin China once had a Russian Catholic parish.
orthodox.cn/news/910906aleksiev_en.htm
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Peter_J
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Yes, it is possible. It would be surprising, however, since we’ve been moving in the opposite direction these last few centuries: that is, away from the Ambrosian Rite, the Mozarabic Rite, etc and toward more use of the Roman Rite (what many call “the Latin Rite”).
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