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The '''Eastern Catholic Churches''' Churches are churches that follow the ancient liturgical traditions of the East, while being in [[full communion]] with the [[Roman Catholic Church]] and placing themselves under the authority of the [[Pope|Bishop of Rome]].
*Hungarian Catholic Church
*Italo-Albanian Catholic Church
*[[Melkite ]] Greek Catholic Church
*Romanian Catholic Church
*Russian Catholic Church (Latin rite hierarchy)
==History==
===Second Council of Lyons (1274)===
:See [[Councils of Lyons]]
===Council of Ferrara-Florence (1439)===
:''Main article: [[Council of Florence]]''
===Union of Brest (1596)===
:See [[Union of Brest]]
===Other Unions===
===''Orientalium Ecclesiarum '' (Vatican II) and the Post-Council Period===
''Orientalium Ecclesiarium'', the Decree on the Eastern Catholic Churches, was promulgated at the Second Vatican Council by Pope Paul VI on November 21, 1964. This decree instructs Eastern Catholics to "preserve their legitimate liturgical rite" and was in many ways a move away from previous episodes of open Latinizations. The Eastern liturgical traditions, at this time often heavily Latinized, was affirmed by the Council. In situations where the Eastern Tradition was lost, it was to be reclaimed. An example of this is the practice of infant Chrismation and communion and the singing of the Divine Office (i.e. Vespers and Matins) which, largely lost in many Eastern Catholic Churches, was slowly reclaimed after the council.
The rights and privileges of Eastern Catholic patriarchs were also emphasized in this document. The Synod as a form of government is given specific autonomous powers to, depending on the Church and territory in question, establish eparchies (dioceses) and exarchates, nominate and transfer bishops, and to legislate other items such as the date for Easter, appropriate liturgical texts, and the formation of clerics.
*Armenian Catholic Church ([[Church of Armenia]])
*Chaldean Catholic Church ([[Assyrian Church of the East]])*Coptic Catholic Church ([[Coptic|Coptic Orthodox Church]])*Ethiopian Catholic Church*Maronite Catholic ([[Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church]])*Syrian Catholic Church ([[Syriac Orthodox Church of Syria]])
*Syro-Malankara Catholic Church (Malankara Orthodox Church)
*Syro Malabar Church
*Italo-Albanian Catholic Church
*Hungarian Greek Catholic Church
==For More Information==
*[http://www.ustpaul.ca/Sheptytsky/index.htm Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytsky Institute for Eastern Christian Studies] at St. Paul University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
*[http://www.cnewa.org/ecc-bodypgdefault.aspx?eccpageIDID=54&pagetypeID=9&sitecode=3HQ&indexviewpageno=toc Introduction to 1 Eastern Christian Catholic Churches, Catholic Near East Welfare Agency]*[http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_decree_19641121_orientalium-ecclesiarum_en.html Orientalium Ecclesiarum] by Pope Paul VI, Vatican II's 1964 Decree on the Catholic Eastern Churches
*[http://stmichaelruscath.org/ St. Michael's Russian Catholic Church], New York, NY
*[http://www.crosslink.net/~hrycak/ch_indx-s.html An Unofficial Directory of Eastern Catholic Churches in the U.S.]
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