BYZANTINE. The largest of these eastern ... John Paul II appointed a Major Archbishop in 1992. All the rites of the Catholic Church are of equal dignity and equally valid. Attendance at a ...

As clergy and faithful present proclaimed “Axios! Axios! Axios!” (Greek for “He is worthy”), Fr. Artur Bubnevych was ...

A Church sui iuiris is a distinct community of faithful within a rite of the Church. For example, there are 22 eastern Churches sui iuris, made up of two Alexandrian, three Antiochene, one ...