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Greek Catholic Church

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The Greek-Catholic churches or Byzantine Catholic churches, are sui iuris churches (of their own rite) which fall within the "Eastern Catholic Churches" or "Catholic Churches of Eastern rite", which constitute the corpus of churches in communion with the Bishop of Rome and observing, by long tradition, the Byzantine Rite. These bodies of churches were traditionally called "Greek-Catholic" to highlight the "Greek" origin of the rite as contrasted with the Latin Church of the west. Despite using the word Greek, the vast majority of Byzantine Catholics come from the Slavic Byzantine tradition, with Ukrainian Catholics being the largest body.

Greek rites

The Greek Catholic Church may refer to the Eastern Catholic Churches that use the Byzantine Rite, also known as the Greek Rite:

Albanian Greek Catholic Church

Belarusian Greek Catholic Church

Bulgarian Greek Catholic Church

Greek Catholic Church of Croatia and Serbia

Greek Byzantine Catholic Church

Hungarian Greek Catholic Church

Italo-Albanian Catholic Church

Macedonian Greek Catholic Church

Malta Greek Catholic Church

Melkite Greek Catholic Church

Romanian Greek Catholic Church

Russian Greek Catholic Church

Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church

Slovak Greek Catholic Church

Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church

Any other Eastern Catholic group that uses the Byzantine Rite:

Georgian Byzantine-Rite Catholics

An Ordinariate for Eastern Catholic faithful