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To: vladimir998
Minor quibble: "Melkites" are "Byzantines". They follow (a version of) the Byzantine Rite, quite similar to that of the Ukrainians and Ruthenians, etc.

The Melkites are Byzantine Catholics from the Near East (Syria and Lebanon, mostly).

43 posted on 12/31/2008 12:54:50 PM PST by Campion
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To: Campion

Melkites have their own Patriarch: http://www.melkite.org/PatriarchWritings.html

The Byzantine Catholics, as they are commonly referred to in the US, are Ukrainians, Ruthenians and Slovaks from Eastern Europe, while the Melkites are exclusively (originally of course) from the Middle East. They share essentially the same liturgy, but then again, so do most Eastern Christians. There are several churches which are lumped together as “Byzantine” because of their Greek basis and liturgical background: Melkite, Romanian, Ruthenian, Russian, Slovak, Ukrainian, and Italo-Greek (Old Albanian?).
Again, however, the Melkites have their own jurisdiction, and their own patriarch.

When you see a “Byzantine Catholic” parish it is not going to be a Melkite parish. That would be listed as a Melkite parish: http://www.melkite.org/

Example: Melkite: http://www.melkite.org/parishinfo.html

Byzantine: http://www.stannbyz.org/
and the same name, but different county in Pa. is a St. Anne’s that 25 years ago was called “Byzantine” but now is said to be “Ukrainian Catholic”: http://www.stanneukrainiancc.com/


44 posted on 12/31/2008 1:31:58 PM PST by vladimir998 (Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ. St. Jerome)
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