Eastern Catholic churches facts for kids
The Eastern Catholic Churches are autocephalous Christian churches. They recognize the Bishop of Rome as their spiritual leader, like other Catholics.They differ on ideas as how a mass should be organised, or which prayers are more important than others.
In total there are 23 such churches, the probably best known are listed below:
- Coptic Catholic Church
- Maronite Church
- Armenian Catholic Church
- Chaldean Catholic Church
- Syro-Malabar Catholic Church
- Syro-Malankara Catholic Church
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Images for kids
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Monastery of Qozhaya in Kadisha Valley, Lebanon, the historical stronghold of the Maronite Church
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Pope Leo XIII issued the apostolic constitution Orientalium dignitas. Photogram of the 1896 film Sua Santitá papa Leone XIII, the first time a Pope appeared on film.
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Pope Paul VI presiding over the introductory ingress of the Second Vatican Council, flanked by Camerlengo Benedetto Aloisi Masella and two Papal gentlemen
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Pope Pius XI in an audience with Demetrius I Qadi, Patriarch of Antioch and All the East and other bishops of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church in 1923
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Patriarch Bechara Boutros al-Rahi is the head of the Maronite Church, and also a Cardinal.
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Ukrainian Catholic Bishop Paul Chomnycky in London, United Kingdom. Members of the Eastern Catholic churches today live all over the world due to emigration from their lands of origin.