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LIThe Catholic Church is not just the Roman Catholic Church.
The Catholic Church is a universal communion of 24 self-governing Churches (sui iuris). One of them is the Latin Church, often called the Roman Catholic Church.
The other 23 are Eastern Catholic Churches, which are fully Catholic and in communion with the Pope while preserving their own ancient liturgies, languages, spiritual traditions, and hierarchies.
They are not separate denominations, but different traditions within the one Catholic Church.
The 24 Catholic Churches
Latin Tradition
1. Latin Church (Roman Catholic)
Alexandrian Tradition
2. Coptic Catholic Church
3. Ethiopian Catholic Church
4. Eritrean Catholic Church
West Syriac (Antiochene) Tradition
5. Maronite Church
6. Syriac Catholic Church
7. Syro-Malankara Catholic Church
East Syriac Tradition
8. Chaldean Catholic Church
9. Syro-Malabar Catholic Church
Armenian Tradition
10. Armenian Catholic Church
Byzantine Tradition
11. Albanian Greek Catholic Church
12. Belarusian Greek Catholic Church
13. Bulgarian Greek Catholic Church
14. Croatian Greek Catholic Church
15. Greek Byzantine Catholic Church
16. Hungarian Greek Catholic Church
17. Italo-Albanian Catholic Church
18. Macedonian Greek Catholic Church
19. Melkite Greek Catholic Church
20. Romanian Greek Catholic Church
21. Russian Greek Catholic Church
22. Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church
23. Slovak Greek Catholic Church
24. Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
One faith. One communion. Many traditions. ♱ #catholic #fyp #feedfeed #protestant #religion
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