Greek Byzantine Catholic Church

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Congregation for the Oriental Churches
RegionGreece, Turkey
LiturgyByzantine Rite
HeadquartersHoly Trinity Cathedral
OriginJune 11, 1911
Separated fromGreek Orthodox
Branched fromCatholic Church
Congregations4
Members6,016
Ministers11[1]
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The Greek Byzantine Catholic Church (

Eastern Catholic particular church of the Catholic Church that uses the Byzantine Rite in Koine Greek and Modern Greek. Its membership includes inhabitants of Greece and Turkey, with some links with Italy and Corsica
.

History

There were several failed attempts to repair the

East-West Schism between Greek and Latin Christians: the Council of Bari in 1098, the Council of Lyon in 1274, and the Council of Florence in 1439. Subsequently, many individual Greeks, then under Ottoman rule, embraced communion with the Catholic Church. They typically followed the Roman Rite of the Latin Church, maintaining their parishes through contact and support mostly from the Venetians.[citation needed
]

However, it was not until the 1880s that a particular church specifically for Greek Catholics who followed the Byzantine rite was built in the village of Malgara in Thrace. Before the end of the 19th century, two more such churches were built, one in Constantinople and the other in Chalcedon.

In 1826, Catholic priest John Marangos began a mission among the Orthodox Christians of Constantinople, where he managed the construction of a small community. In 1878, he moved on to Athens, where he died in 1885 after he had founded a church. In addition, he won over two small villages in Thrace to the Catholic faith.

After 1895, the Assumptionists began their mission in Constantinople, a seminary and two other small towns, founded in 1910; there were about 1,000 worshipers with 12 priests, 10 of which were Assumptionists.

In 1907, a native

particular Church of Byzantine Rite Greek Catholics was being founded. Much more numerous were the Catholic Greeks of the Latin Church, who formed the majority of the population in some Aegean
islands.

As a result of

Istanbul emigrated or fled to Athens, one being the bishop who had succeeded to the position of exarch, and the religious institute
of the Sisters of the Pammakaristos, founded in 1920.

In 1932, the territory of the Exarchate for Byzantine-Rite Greek Catholics was limited to that of the

Istanbul Pogrom, extremely reduced the number of the Greek Catholics in Turkey. The last resident Greek-Catholic priest in Constantinople died in 1997 and has not since been replaced. The only regular services in the Greek-Catholic Church of the Holy Trinity there are held by exiled Chaldean Catholics
living in the city.

Vocations to the Greek Byzantine Catholic Church are largely drawn from the

Greek islands of Syros and Tinos
, which both have sizable Catholic populations.

Bishop Manuel Nin (titular bishop of Carcabia) is current Apostolic Exarch of the Byzantine Rite Catholics in Greece.

Byzantine Rite Catholic Greeks in Greece number were mildly rising to 6,016 (6,000 in Greece and 16 in Turkey) as of 2017.[2] In Athens, the main Greek Catholic church is the Holy Trinity Cathedral, Athens.

Although not under the jurisdiction of the Greek Byzantine Catholic Church, a Greek-Catholic community of the descendants of expatriated Greeks exists at Cargèse, in Corsica. A priest based in Athens, Archimandrite Athanasios Armaos, visits Cargèse several times a year to conduct services in the Greek church.[3]

Byzantine Greek Catholics

Notable Greek Byzantine, or Eastern, Catholics (also called Uniates for favouring the Union of the Churches) include:

Exarchs

See also

Related institutions outside of Greece:

Historical connections:

  • Arbëreshë/Albanian minority
    in Italy)

Other:

Notes

References

  1. ^ Roberson, Ronald G. "The Eastern Catholic Churches 2010" (PDF). Eastern Catholic Churches Statistics. Catholic Near East Welfare Association. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 March 2012. Retrieved 28 December 2011.
  2. ^ "The Eastern Catholic Churches 2017" (PDF). CNEWA or Catholic Near East Welfare Association. Retrieved 2018-02-25.
  3. ^ "L'exception grecque", Corse-Matin (in French), 23 April 2011, retrieved 2011-04-23

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