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The Rites Of The Catholic Church
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RITES OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN THE WEST
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LATIN RITE
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CHURCH
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AREA of PRACTICE
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LANGUAGE of LITURGY
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ROMAN
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Worldwide
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Latin & Vernacular
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AMBROSIAN
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Italy - Milan Archdiocese
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Latin & Vernacular
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MOZARABIC
(Iberian)
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Spain - Toledo Use
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Latin & Vernacular
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Portugal - Bragan Use
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Latin & Vernacular
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Also, as a matter of record there are a number of
other "so-called rites" known as 'historic rites of religious
orders', which are not truly rites per se, but are mainly
variations of the Latin Rite to which they belong. These are:
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 Carthusian Rite Liturgy
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Cistercian Rite Liturgy
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Dominican Rite Liturgy
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Premonstratensian Rite liturgy
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Franciscan Rite Liturgy
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Benedictine Rite Liturgy
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Servite Rite Liturgy
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Carmelite of the Holy Sepulcre Rite liturgy
 In recent years some Anglican clergy with their
entire congregations have re-united with The Catholic Church. The
Holy See has allowed an Anglican Use Liturgy to be celebrated by
former Anglican ministers who become Catholics. The Anglican Use
Liturgy consists of the Book of Common Prayers of the Anglican
Liturgy with some adaptations from the Ordo of Pope Paul VI (the
Revised Roman Liturgy).
N.B. Up until the end of the 19th century the Latin
Rite of the Western Church comprised two other "Church Liturgies",
which are now extinct, namely:
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The Gallican (Frankish), centered mainly in France
& central Europe, with its Lyonaise Use Liturgy, and:
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The Celtic (British), centered mainly in England,
with its Sarum Use Liturgy.
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RITES OF THE EASTERN CATHOLIC CHURCH
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ALEXANDRIAN RITE (
Liturgy of St. Mark )
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CHURCH
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AREA of PRACTICE
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LANGUAGE of LITURGY
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COPTIC
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Egypt & Near East
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Syriac & Arabic or Coptic
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ETHIOPIAN
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Ethiopia & Somalia
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Geez & Arabic
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ANTIOCHENE RITE (
Liturgy of St. James )
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CHURCH
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AREA of PRACTICE
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LANGUAGE of LITURGY
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SYRIAN
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Near & Middle East
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Syriac & Arabic
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MARONITE
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Middle East & Diaspora
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Syriac & Vernacular
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MALANKARESE
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India
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Syriac
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ARMENIAN RITE (
Greek Liturgy of St.Basil )
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CHURCH
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AREA of PRACTICE
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LANGUAGE of LITURGY
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ARMENIAN
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Near East & Diaspora
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Greek & Armenian
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CHALDEAN RITE (
Derived from Antiochene Rite )
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CHURCH
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AREA of PRACTICE
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LANGUAGE of LITURGY
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CHALDEAN
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Near & Middle East
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Syriac & Arabic
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Syro-Malabarese
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India
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Syriac & Malayan
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BYZANTINE RITE (
Liturgy of St. James, St. Basil & Others
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Please note that the Byzantine Rite is also
known as "The Constantinopolitan Rite"
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CHURCH
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AREA of PRACTICE
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LANGUAGE of LITURGY
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ALBANIAN
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ALBANIA
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Albanian & Greek
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BELARUSSIAN
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BELARUS
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Old Slavonic
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BULGARIAN
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BULGARIA
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Old Slavonic
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CZECH*
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Czech Republic
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Old Slavonic & Vernacular
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GEORGIAN
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Georgia & Asia Minor
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Georgian & Greek
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GREEK
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Greece & Diaspora
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Greek & Vernacular
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HUNGARIAN
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Hungary & USA
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Greek & Vernacular
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ITALO-ALBANIAN
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East & South ITALY
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Greek & Vernacular
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KRIZEVCI**
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Croatia & former Yugoslavia
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Old Slavonic & Vernacular
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MELKITE
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Greece & Diaspora
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Greek & Vernacular
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ROMANIAN
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Romania & USA
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Greek & Vernacular
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RUSSIAN
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Russia & Diaspora
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Old Slavonic
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RUTHENIAN
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Ukrainia & USA
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Old Slavonic
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SLOVACKIAN
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Slovackia
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Old Slavonic
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UKRAINIAN
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Ukrainia & Diaspora
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Old Slavonic & Vernacular
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* The Apostolic
Exarchate for Catholics of Byzantine Rite in the Czech Republic was
established by Pope John Paul II in his Bull of March 13,
1996.
** The first
Catholics of the Byzantine rite in what was Yugoslavia were Serbians
living in Croatian territory under Hungarian control in the early
17th century. In 1611 they were given a bishop, who was officially
the Byzantine vicar of the Latin Bishop of Zagreb. His headquarters
was at March monastery, which became a center of efforts to bring
Serbian Orthodox into communion with Rome. After a period of tension
with the local Latin bishops, the Serbs in Croatia were given their
own diocesan bishop by Pope Pius VI on 17 June 1777, with his See at
Krizevci. He was made suffragan at first to the Primate of Hungary,
and later (1853) to the Latin Archbishop of Zagreb. The diocese of
Krizevci was extended to embrace all the Byzantine Catholics in
then-Yugoslavia when this new country was founded after World War I.
Thus the diocese included 5 distinct groups: Croatians, Ruthenians
who had emigrated from Slovakia around 1750, Ukranians who emigrated
from Galicia in about 1900, Macedonians in the south of the country
who became Catholic because of 19th c. missionary activity (who now
have their own Apostolic activity), and a few Romanians in what was
called the Yugoslavian Banat. Interestingly, Blessed Aloysius
Cardinal Stepinac, the Archbishop of Zagreb tried to save Serb
converts to the Church from the murderous pro-Nazi Croatian
Ushtashi. The present Bishop of Krizevci for about 50,000 Byzantine
Catholics in former Yugoslavia is Bishop Slavomir Mkilovs who was
appointed in 1983 and resides in Zagreb, capital of
Croatia.
Last revision or update 10/16/2006
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