A Church sui iuiris is a distinct community of faithful within a rite of the Church ... two Chaldean and 14 Byzantine. Information on each of these sui iuris Churches as well as a link when ...

The Catholic Encyclopedia describes the situation ... The largest of these eastern rites is the Byzantine. The Byzantine liturgy is based on liturgy developed by St. James for the Antiochaian ...

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.