The Eastern Catholic Churches or Oriental Catholic Churches, also called the Eastern-Rite Catholic Churches, Eastern Rite Catholicism, or simply the Eastern...

Malankara Syrian Church of India, and the Alexandrian Rite of the Copts, Ethiopians and Eritreans. Oriental Orthodox Churches shared communion with the imperial...

liturgical rites: the Alexandrian Rite, the Armenian Rite, the Byzantine Rite, the East Syriac Rite (also known as Persian or Assyrian Rite), and the West...

Rite, or East Syrian Rite (also called the Edessan Rite, Assyrian Rite, Persian Rite, Chaldean Rite, Nestorian Rite, Babylonian Rite or Syro-Oriental...

East Syriac Rite and the West Syriac Rite. The East Syriac Rite (also known variably as the Assyrian, Sassanid, Babylonian or Persian Rite), whose main...

The Alexandrian rites are a collection of ritual families and uses of Christian liturgy employed by three Oriental Orthodox churches (the Coptic Orthodox...

raising a family, as well as those related to final rites associated with cremation. These rites of passage are not uniform, and vary within the diverse...

Eastern Orthodox Church (Byzantine Rite) uses the term "Divine Liturgy" to denote the Eucharistic service. and some Oriental Orthodox churches also use that...

revised in 1999, which states that each "Eastern-rite (Oriental) Church ... is considered equal to the Latin rite within the Church". The Second Vatican Council...

centuries. Versions of the West Syriac Rite are currently used by multiple different ecclesiastical bodies: Oriental Orthodox Churches: Syriac Orthodox Church...

use the Byzantine liturgical rites liturgical rites of the Oriental Orthodox Church, which uses a variety of liturgical rites Eastern Catholic liturgy, the...

Rectified Scottish Rite Standard Scottish Rite Rite Français Moderne Rétabli Rite of Baldwyn Rite of Memphis or Oriental, in 95 degrees. Rite of Memphis Misraim...

Ordinariate for Eastern (Rite) Catholics in France (or France of the Eastern Rite) (French: Ordinariat des catholiques de rite oriental résidant en France)...

before this assimilation, the original rite of many Jewish Oriental communities was already closer to the Sephardi rite than to the Ashkenazi one. For this...

Church, which follows the East Syriac Rite, as well as the West Syriac Syro-Malankara Catholic Church. The Oriental Orthodox faction includes the autocephalous...

portal Eastern Orthodox Church List of Christian denominations Oriental Orthodoxy Western Rite Orthodoxy "Affiliations of the Orthodox-Catholic Church of...

The Armenian Rite (Armenian: Հայկական պատարագ) is a liturgical rite used by both the Armenian Apostolic and the Armenian Catholic churches. Isaac of Armenia...

A rite of passage is a ceremony or ritual of the passage which occurs when an individual leaves one group to enter another. It involves a significant change...

the Oriental Orthodox Churches, from the second half of the 5th century, it is in schism with the Eastern Orthodox Church of the Byzantine Rite and with...

Christianity (also called as Eastern Reformed Christianity as well as Oriental Protestant Christianity) encompasses a range of heterogeneous Protestant...

same among Byzantine Rite monasteries, although parish and cathedral customs vary rather more so by locale. The usage in Oriental Orthodox Churches, the...

The Byzantine Rite, also known as the Greek Rite or the Rite of Constantinople, is a liturgical rite that is identified with the wide range of cultural...

Jacobite Church, an Oriental Orthodox Church not in communion with the Eastern Orthodox Church. Other small groups using the Western Rite have been received...

Oriental Orthodox Churches are the churches descended from those that rejected the Council of Chalcedon in 451. Despite the similar name, they are therefore...

The Ambrosian Rite (Italian: rito ambrosiano) is a Latin liturgical rite of the Catholic Church. The rite is named after Saint Ambrose, a bishop of Milan...

ancient Syrian Christian Palakunnathu family which practiced West Syriac Rite Oriental Orthodoxy after the Coonan Cross Oath of 1653. Abraham Malpan translated...

Oriental Orthodox theology refers to the study of God and Christian teachings within the context of the Oriental Orthodox Churches. The Oriental Orthodox...

the Oriental Orthodox and Eastern Catholic churches. It consists of two distinct liturgical traditions: the Maronite Rite, and the Jacobite Rite. The...

equivalent), as defined by Catholic canon law and ecclesiology. A liturgical rite, a collection of liturgies descending from shared historic or regional context...

Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox and Eastern Catholic churches, as well as in the Assyrian Church of the East initiation rites. The sacrament is more...