Greek Catholic Church

The so-called Greek-Catholic Churches, which fall within the "Eastern Catholic Churches" or "Catholic Churches of Eastern rite", constitute that corpus of churches in communion with the Bishop of Rome and observing, by long tradition, the Byzantine Rite. They are still called "Greek-Catholic" to highlight the "Greek" rite (as the Byzantine rite was called in the past, having the Greek koinè as the common ecclesiastical lingua franca of the various Christian peoples of the East) and the union with the papacy.

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

• • The Albanian Greek Catholic Church
  • The Belarusian Greek Catholic Church
  • The Bulgarian Greek Catholic Church
  • The Greek Catholic Church of Croatia and Serbia
  • The Greek Byzantine Catholic Church
  • The Hungarian Greek Catholic Church
  • The Italo-Albanian Catholic Church
  • The Macedonian Greek Catholic Church
  • The Malta Greek Catholic Church
  • The Melkite Greek Catholic Church
  • The Romanian Greek Catholic Church
  • The Russian Greek Catholic Church
  • The Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church
  • The Slovak Greek Catholic Church
  • The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
• Any other Eastern Catholic group that uses the Byzantine Rite:
  • The Georgian Byzantine-Rite Catholics
  • An Ordinariate for Eastern Catholic faithful

See also

• Albanian Catholic Church
• Belarusian Catholic Church
• Bulgarian Catholic Church
• Croatian Catholic Church
• Hungarian Catholic Church
• Romanian Catholic Church
• Serbian Catholic Church
• Slovak Catholic Church
• Ukrainian Catholic Church