Vatican II and the Eastern Churches

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Did Vatican II have any influence on the Eastern Catholic churches (if there were any)?
 
Orientalium Ecclesiarum was one of the documents issued by the Council.

Most of the documents of the Council were more applicable to the Latin church, but from what I understand most of the Eastern Catholic churches undertook some reevaluation and changes on their own, inspired in part by the Council.
 
I think Vatican II has generally been seen as a good thing for the Eastern churches. It affirmed the status of Eastern Catholic churches as actual churches and not just “rites,” and encouraged them to recover their own traditions instead of feeling forced to import Latin traditions.
 
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Did Vatican II have any influence on the Eastern Catholic churches (if there were any)?
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The Melkite Greek Catholic Church hierarchy had a very significant impact on the Second Vatican Council, reflected in some of the most obvious changes in the Roman Rite:
…post-conciliar agenda that the Melkite bishops first proposed is simply astonishing: the vernacular, eucharistic concelebration and** communion under both species in the Latin liturgy**; the permanent diaconate; the establishment of what ultimately became the Synod of Bishops held periodically in Rome, as well as the Secretariat (now Pontifical Council) for Christian Unity; new attitudes and a less offensive ecumenical vocabulary for dealing with other Christians, especially with the Orthodox Churches; the recognition and acceptance of Eastern Catholic communities for what they are, “Churches,” not “rites.”…
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Read Orientalium Ecclesiarum, the Second Vatican Council’s Decree on the Eastern Catholic Churches. Not without its problems, the Codex Canonum Ecclesiarum Orientalium Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches promulgated by Saint John Paul the Great.
 
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Some changes that occurred related to Latin and eastern Catholic and Orthodox are:

*Unitatis Redintegratio
vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_decree_19641121_unitatis-redintegratio_en.html
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The 1964 suppression of the titular Latin Patriarchs of Alexandria, Antioch, and Constantinople.

December 7, 1965, lifting of mutual anathemas in the JOINT CATHOLIC-ORTHODOX DECLARATION OF HIS HOLINESS POPE PAUL VI AND THE ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH ATHENAGORAS I

March 25, 1967 for Latin Catholics and for most eastern Catholics, January 21, 1965, the canonical form of marriage is necessary only for liceity, so marriage, if entered with the assistance and solemn blessing of an Orthodox priest, is valid. If a minister of either Church did not officiate at the ceremony then a Lack of Form case possible.
 
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