Congregation for the Eastern Churches THE CATHOLIC EAST Valore Italiano Congregation for the Eastern Churches THE CATHOLIC EAST Valore Italiano™ 2019 1st English edition edited by: Edward Farrugia, S.J. Gianpaolo Rigotti Michel Van Parys, O.S.B. Scientific Commission: Michel Van Parys, O.S.B., President Gianpaolo Rigotti, Secretary Edward Farrugia, S.J., Member Previous editions in Italian: 1st edition 1929 2nd edition 1932 3rd edition 1962 4th edition 1974 5th edition 2017 THE CATHOLIC EAST Codice ISBN 978-88-97789-71-0 ©2019 Congregation for the Eastern Churches & Valore Italiano™ - All right reserved www.orientecattolico.com – II – Table of contents Preface ............................................................................................................. V Editorial note ................................................................................................... VIII The Eastern Catholic Churches: maps and general statistics ........................ XI Legend of colours and symbols used in the individual maps ........................ XVI Abbreviations for religious institutes ............................................................ XVII Introduction ..................................................................................................... 1 1. The Christian East and the Church of Rome (16th to 20th century) .. 3 2. Liturgical patrimony of the Christian East .......................................... 29 3. Eastern Catholic Churches: Categories of Churches ........................ 41 4. The Codex Canonum Ecclesiarum Orientalium and the Ecumenical Commitment of the Eastern Catholic Churches ................................ 61 5. Historico-institutional Profile of the Congregation for the Eastern Churches ............................................................................................... 69 6. The Second Vatican Council, a new stage in the history of the Congregation for the Eastern Churches ............................................. 97 7. The activity of the Congregation for the Eastern Churches in the last few decades ......................................................................................... 117 Patriarchal Churches ................................................................................... 147 8. Coptic Catholic Church ...................................................................... 149 9. Syriac Catholic Church ....................................................................... 163 10. Greek Melkite Catholic Church ....................................................... 187 11. Syro-Maronite Church ...................................................................... 215 12. Chaldean Catholic Church ............................................................... 253 13. Armenian Catholic Church ............................................................... 283 Major Archiepiscopal Churches ................................................................ 321 14. Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church ................................................... 323 15. Syro-Malabar Catholic Church ........................................................ 361 16. Syro-Malankara Catholic Church .................................................... 395 17. Romanian Greek Catholic Church .................................................... 409 Metropolitan Churches ................................................................................ 433 18. Eastern Catholic Churches of Ethiopia and Eritrea ........................ 435 19. Ruthenian Catholic Church in the United States of America ......... 451 20. Greek Catholic Church of Slovakia ................................................. 473 21. Greek Catholic Church of Hungary .................................................. 491 – III – Eastern eparchies and exarchates ............................................................ 503 22. Italo-Albanian eparchies of Italy ..................................................... 505 23. Eparchy of Križevci in Croatia ........................................................ 529 24. Ruthenian Eparchy of Mukachevo in Ukraine ................................ 545 Preface 25. Eparchy of Strumica-Skopje in North Macedonia .......................... 559 26. Eparchy of Ruski Krstur in Serbia ................................................... 569 The Catholic East is the fruit of a long and intense effort. It is 27. Eparchy of Sofia in Bulgaria ............................................................ 575 published by the Congregation for the Eastern Churches, the dicastery of 28. Apostolic exarchates of Greece and Turkey .................................... 591 the Roman Curia entrusted with supporting the Eastern Catholic Churches. 29. Apostolic exarchate of the Czech Republic ..................................... 611 The dogmatic constitution Lumen Gentium of the Second Vatican Council 30. Exarchic monastery of Santa Maria di Grottaferrata ...................... 619 placed the Churches of the East most appropriately within the communion of Churches: Eastern Catholics without a proper hierarchy ....................................... 627 31. Apostolic exarchates of Russia and Harbin ..................................... 629 By divine providence it has happened that various Churches, founded in 32. Ordinariates for Eastern Catholics lacking a hierarch of their own various places by the apostles and their successors, over the centuries Church sui iuris ................................................................................. 647 have formed into many groups that are organically united, which, saving the unity of the faith and the single divine constitution of the universal 33. Belarus ............................................................................................... 659 Church, enjoy their own discipline, their own liturgical custom, their own 34. Apostolic administration in Kazakhstan and Central Asia ............... 675 theological and spiritual patrimony. Some of these, particularly the 35. Apostolic administration of southern Albania .................................. 679 ancient patriarchal Churches, as mothers in the faith, have given birth to others as their daughters, with which they remain connected up to our day Latin Church .................................................................................................. 691 by a very tight bond of charity in sacramental life and in mutual respect 36. Latin dioceses and the Congregation for the Eastern Churches ...... 693 for rights and obligations. (n. 23) Institutions for the Eastern Churches ....................................................... 783 37. Institutes of formation and Communities in Rome ......................... 785 Thus, Christ’s Church is the spouse circumdata varietate (Psalm 38. Cultural Institutes .............................................................................. 803 44: 15). Many motivations led our dicastery to promote this new edition of 39. Organizations supporting Eastern Churches ................................... 853 The Catholic East: first of all, the desire to make the Catholic faithful know honour, and love the Churches of the East in full communion with the The Christian East in Rome ....................................................................... 875 Apostolic See of Rome, whose rich diversity is great and yet too little 40. Eastern Catholic places of worship in Rome .................................. 877 recognized. 41. Eastern monasticism and art in Rome ............................................. 887 To this aspiration is added the aim of presenting a tool for work 42. Iconographic patrimony of the Congregation for the Eastern Churches .. 913 and consultation that is combined with an effort at objective and academic historical reconstruction, but always capable of being refined and updated, Illustrations .................................................................................................... 943 in the hope that the full ecclesiality of our Churches, progressively rediscovered beginning with the pontificate of Pope Leo XIII, may be Indices ............................................................................................................. 977 appreciated more and more. Analytical index ............................................................................................... 979 Third, The Catholic East desires to be a tribute to the Churches of Index of maps .................................................................................................. 1123 the Christian East, Catholic and Orthodox, and to their numerous martyrs Index of illustrations ....................................................................................... 1131 and confessors of the faith. When the Jubilee Year 2000 was approaching, General index .................................................................................................. 1137 the Congregation for the Eastern Churches organized a conference, “Faith and Martyrdom”, and published its proceedings. Unfortunately, tragic Commemorative Centenary Stamp (1917–2017) ........................................... 1159 – IV – Preface Preface The Catholic East is the fruit of a long and intense effort. It is published by the Congregation for the Eastern Churches, the dicastery of the Roman Curia entrusted with supporting the Eastern Catholic Churches. The dogmatic constitution Lumen Gentium of the Second Vatican Council placed the Churches of the East most