Eastern Catholic churches

The Eastern Catholic Churches are autocephalous (autonomous) Christian churches that recognise the Bishop of Rome as their spiritual leader like other Catholics. They differ on ideas as how the Mass should be organised or the prayers that are more important than the others. Most of them have much in common with Eastern Othodoxy.

In total, there are 23 such churches. Probably, the best known are listed below:

• Coptic Catholic Church
• Maronite Church
• Armenian Catholic Church
• Chaldean Catholic Church
• Syro-Malabar Catholic Church
• Syro-Malankara Catholic Church

Related pages

• Eastern Christianity

Other websites

General

• Orientale Lumen - Apostolic Letter of Pope John Paul II on the Eastern Churches
• Codex Canonum Ecclesiarum Orientalium - original text of the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches, with concordance
• Code of canons of the Oriental Churchs - defective English translation, with concordance
• Instruction for Applying the Liturgical Prescriptions of the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches Archived 2009-04-25 at the Wayback Machine - Instruction by Congregation for the Eastern Churches
• What All Catholics Should Know About Eastern Catholic Churches Archived 2011-05-17 at the Wayback Machine
• Eastern Catholics in the United States of America - adapted from a similar publication by the Australian Catholic Bishops' Conference

Individual Churches

• Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarchate Archived 2007-02-11 at the Wayback Machine—Official Website
• Maronite Patriarchate Archived 2016-12-29 at the Wayback Machine—Official Website
• Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church Archived 2008-07-30 at the Wayback Machine—Official Website
• Syro Malankara Catholic Church International Homepage Archived 2008-07-25 at the Wayback Machine—Official Website
• Syro-Malankara Catholic Church
• Byzantine Catholic Church in America—Information and Messageboards
• Byzantine Catholic Archeparchy of Pittsburgh—Official Website