Byzantine Rite

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The Byzantinian Rite, sometimes called Constantinian Rite, is the major group of liturgical traditions belonging to the Eastern Rites within the Catholic church, i.e. differing from the Latin or Roman Rite of the Western Catholic tradition, and rather corresponding to the Orthodox rites, while being Uniates, i.e. recognizing the hierarchical authority of the Pope of Rome.

List of churches

As in 2006, this applies to the folowing eastern Catholic churches in union with the Holy See, mostly Greek, Slavonic and other Balkanic cultures:

In the Middle East:

See also

Other Eastern rites, not belonging to the Byzantine traditon, are:

Sources and references