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Has there ever been a time when two orders of the Mass were promulgated in the same Rite? It would seem that having two competing orders would be a cause of confusion.

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When the Mass of Pius V was promulgated (Tridentine Mass) and other rites were supressed, there were about 200 approved liturgies. Some of the older, long standing rites survived, but most were supressed. So in that sense, the answer is yes.
 
These 200 liturgies were all in the Roman Rite? wow. Were these mainly minor variants?
 
I do not know. I assume that there were a few major different liturgies with many minor variations of those few major ones.
 
I don’t think there were 200 different Liturgies in the Roman Rite at the time of Pius V (or ever), but there were a lot of local modifications of the Roman Rite, ‘approved’ only at the local level.

Pius V allowed for Liturgies which were over 200 years to remain alongside the new codified Missal. (E.G. Ambrosian, Dominican) (Which still exist alongside the Roman Rite Missal today)

But there’s a difference between another Liturgy/Rite (e.g. Ambrosian) and a previous form of the Roman Missal (e.g. Tridentine) being used alongside the Roman Missal. (If that’s what you were meaning.)

There is some good info at the New Advent site, in the Catholic Encyclopedia:
‘Liturgy’ newadvent.org/cathen/09306a.htm
‘Liturgy of the Mass’ newadvent.org/cathen/09790b.htm

You can also look up the other Rites on the Catholic Encyclopedia
 
In the Latin Rite there have been numerous forms of the Mass. Because the Mass as said in Rome was, in general, the standard, the variations were not great. Just prior to the normalization of the Mass following Trent, there were some 20 different forms of the Mass: most major religious orders had their own (the Dominican, Carthusian, Franciscan and a couple others still exist). There were also the Ambrosian, Gallican and Mozarabic forms of the Mass (the Ambrosian is still in use in Milan and the Mozarabic is still used in one chapel in Spain).

In the Byzantine Rite there are the Divine Liturgies of St. John Chrysostom and St. Basil, but the only significant difference is found in the Anaphora (St. Basil is somewhat longer). There is also the Liturgy of the Presanctified.

So, the answer to the question is – yes.

Deacon Ed
 
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