Greek Catholic Church

The so-called Greek-Catholic Churches, which fall within the "Eastern Catholic Churches" or "Catholic Churches of Eastern rite", constitute that corpus of churches in communion with the Bishop of Rome and observing, by long tradition, the Byzantine Rite. They are still called "Greek-Catholic" to highlight the "Greek" rite (as the Byzantine rite was called in the past, having the Greek koinè as the common ecclesiastical lingua franca of the various Christian peoples of the East) and the union with the papacy.

Greek Rites

The Greek Catholic Church may refer to the Eastern Catholic Churches that use the Byzantine Rite, also known as the Greek Rite:

• Albanian Greek Catholic Church
• Belarusian Greek Catholic Church
• Bulgarian Greek Catholic Church
• Greek Catholic Church of Croatia and Serbia
• Greek Byzantine Catholic Church
• Hungarian Greek Catholic Church
• Italo-Albanian Catholic Church
• Macedonian Greek Catholic Church
• Malta Greek Catholic Church
• Melkite Greek Catholic Church
• Romanian Greek Catholic Church
• Russian Greek Catholic Church
• Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church
• Slovak Greek Catholic Church
• Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
• Any other Eastern Catholic group that uses the Byzantine Rite:
• Georgian Byzantine-Rite Catholics
  • An Ordinariate for Eastern Catholic faithful

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