Catholic particular churches and liturgical rites

A particular church (Latin: ecclesia particularis) is an ecclesiastical community of faithful headed by a bishop (or equivalent), as defined by Catholic canon law and ecclesiology. A liturgical rite depends on the particular church the bishop (or equivalent) belongs to. Thus “particular church” refers to an institution, and “liturgical rite” to its ritual practices.

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Particular churches exist in two kinds:

1. An autonomous particular church sui iuris: an aggregation of particular churches with distinct liturgical, spiritual, theological and canonical traditions.[1] The largest such autonomous particular church is the Latin Church. The other 23 Eastern Catholic Churches are headed by bishops, some of which are titled Patriarch or Major Archbishop. In this context the descriptors autonomous (Greek: αὐτόνομος, romanized: autónomos) and sui iuris (Latin) are synonymous, meaning “of its own law”.
2. A local particular church: a diocese (or eparchy) headed by a bishop (or equivalent), typically collected in a national polity under an episcopal conference. However, there are also other forms, including apostolic vicariates, apostolic prefectures, military ordinariates, personal ordinariates, personal prelatures, and territorial abbacies.[2]

Liturgical rites also exist in two kinds:

1. Liturgical rite: a liturgical rite depending on the tradition of an autonomous particular church sui iuris
2. Catholic order liturgical rite: a variant of a liturgical rite exceptionately depending on a specific religious order

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	Name	Est.	Rite	Seat	Polity	Jurisdictions	Bishops	Members
	Coptic Catholic Church	1741	Alexandrian	Cathedral of Our Lady, Cairo, Egypt	Patriarchate	8	13	187,320
	Eritrean Catholic Church[3]	2015		Kidane Mehret Cathedral, Asmara, Eritrea	Metropolitanate	4	4	167,722
	Ethiopian Catholic Church	1846		Cathedral of the Holy Saviour, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia	Metropolitanate	4	4	70,832
	Armenian Catholic Church	1742	Armenian	Cathedral of Saint Elias and Saint Gregory, Beirut, Lebanon	Patriarchate	18	16	757,726
	Albanian Greek Catholic Church	1628	Byzantine	Pro-Cathedral of Saint Mary and Saint Louis, Vlorë, Albania	Apostolic administration	1	2	4,028[4]
	Belarusian Greek Catholic Church	1596		none	none[note 1]	0	0	9,000[5]
	Bulgarian Greek Catholic Church	1861		Cathedral of the Dormition, Sofia, Bulgaria	Apostolic exarchate	1	1	10,000
	Greek Catholic Church of Croatia and Serbia[6]: 1140	1611		several[note 2]	no unified structure[note 2]	2	2	42,965
	Greek Byzantine Catholic Church	1911		several[note 3]	no unified structure[note 3]	2	2	6,016
	Hungarian Greek Catholic Church	1912		Cathedral of Hajdúdorog, Debrecen, Hungary	Metropolitanate	3	4	262,484
	Italo-Albanian Catholic Church	1784		several[note 4]	no unified structure[note 4]	3	2	55,812
	Macedonian Greek Catholic Church	2001		Cathedral of the Assumption, Strumica, North Macedonia	Eparchy	1	1[note 5]	11,374
	Melkite Greek Catholic Church	1726		Cathedral of the Dormition, Damascus, Syria	Patriarchate	29	35	1,568,239
	Romanian Greek Catholic Church	1697		Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, Blaj, Romania	Major archiepiscopate	7	8	498,658
	Russian Greek Catholic Church	1905		none[note 6]	none[note 6]	2	0	3,200[citation needed]
	Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church	1646		Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist, Pittsburgh, United States	Metropolitanate[note 7]	6	8	417,795
	Slovak Greek Catholic Church	1646		Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist, Prešov, Slovakia	Metropolitanate	4	6	211,208
	Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church	1595		Cathedral of the Resurrection, Kyiv, Ukraine	Major archiepiscopate	35	50	4,471,688
	Chaldean Catholic Church	1552	East Syriac	Cathedral of Our Lady of Sorrows, Baghdad, Iraq	Patriarchate	23	23	628,405
	Syro-Malabar Catholic Church	1599 Synod of Diamper[citation needed]		Cathedral of Our Lady, Ernakulam, Kerala, India	Major archiepiscopate	35	63	4,251,399
	Maronite Church	4th c.	West Syriac	Church of Bkerke, Bkerke, Lebanon	Patriarchate	29	50	3,498,707
	Syriac Catholic Church	1781		Syriac Catholic Cathedral of Saint Paul, Damascus, Syria	Patriarchate	16	20	195,765
	Syro-Malankara Catholic Church	1930		Cathedral of Saint Mary, Pattom, Kerala, India	Major archiepiscopate	12	14	458,015
	Latin Church	1st c.	Latin	Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran, Rome, Italy	Patriarchate			1,295,000,000
	Other		various[note 8]	several[note 9]	Ordinariates	6	6[note 10]	47,830
Total						2,851[note 11]	5,304	1.313 billion

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