For example, there are 22 eastern Churches sui iuris, made up of two Alexandrian, three Antiochene, one Armenian, two Chaldean and 14 Byzantine. Information on each of these sui iuris Churches as ...

In the nearly 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church ... were elected in the early centuries of the church, during the time of the Roman and Byzantine empires. “To have leadership that ...

BYZANTINE. The largest of these eastern rites ... All the rites of the Catholic Church are of equal dignity and equally valid. Attendance at a different rite fulfills the Sunday obligation.

The Orthodox and Catholic Churches have a united celebration in 2025, for the first time in eight years. Father John Basarab, pastor of Epiphany of Our Lord Byzantine Catholic Church, celebrates ...

Father Joseph Marquis of Sacred Heart Byzantine Catholic Church in Livonia, Michigan, told the Register, “When God took on a tangible body, he sanctified the material world by entering into it ...