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Cattolici bizantini e cattolici romani: una Chiesa, due modi di pregare



  • Byzantine Catholics belong to Eastern churches in full communion with the pope, and they worship in the Byzantine rite, the rite of the Church of Constantinople.
  • Fourteen of the 23 Eastern Catholic churches are Byzantine, and the largest, the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, had about 4.4 million members in a chart of the Annuario Pontificio per il 2018.
  • In the Eastern rites infants receive Baptism, Confirmation (chrismation) and the Eucharist together (Catechism 1233), and married men may be ordained priests.
  • A bar on married Eastern priests abroad, begun for Ruthenians in the United States in 1890 and extended in 1929 and 1930, was relaxed in 2014: Eastern bishops abroad may now allow them, and where there is no Eastern bishop Rome decides in exceptional cases.
  • Un cattolico romano può ricevere la Comunione e adempiere al precetto domenicale durante una liturgia cattolica bizantina (canoni 923 e 1248 del Codice di Diritto Canonico).
  • The Church of the Byzantine Empire was in communion with Rome for much of its history; the excommunications of 1054 were committed to oblivion in 1965, and at Balamand in 1993 the joint Catholic–Orthodox commission rejected “uniatism” as a method of unity while affirming the Eastern Catholic churches’ right to exist.

Byzantine Catholics share one faith and one pope with Roman Catholics, and they pray in a different rite. Their churches, in full communion with Rome, follow the rite of Constantinople. The differences are of form: the Divine Liturgy instead of the Mass, Communion for infants at baptism, married priests, and in places another calendar and Creed wording. There are fourteen Byzantine Catholic churches, the largest of them the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, and they have their own code of church…

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