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 ...

AUSTRALIAN Catholic University experts in theology, liturgy, and ecology are supporting a global proposal to institute a new ...

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.

A longtime Johnstown area pastor has passed away just months after his retirement. Officials with the Byzantine Catholic Archeparchy of Pittsburgh confirmed that Monsignor Raymond Balta passed ...

The oldest churches have long ... Hagia Sophia was built under the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I. Over time, it has served as a Greek Orthodox cathedral, a Roman Catholic cathedral, and an ...