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 ...

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 ...

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

St. Michael the Archangel Church (Byzantine Catholic Rite). Pius XII raised the Church to the status of basilica in 1946. The original of this icon is in the St. Stephen Cathedral in Vienna, Austria.