Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church

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An Eastern Catholic church in full communion with Rome, Byzantine in rite.

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Sung on the Saturday of the Akathist as in the Byzantine churches, and widely used as a parish devotion besides.

Byzantine in rite while in communion with Rome, and singing the same Slavonic and Ukrainian repertory as its Orthodox neighbours.

Major archbishops of this church have been created cardinals, so its head sits in the college without the office belonging to the Byzantine tradition itself.

Sung at the Great Entrance in Slavonic or Ukrainian, the rite being unaltered by the union.

An Eastern church in full communion with Rome, keeping the Byzantine Rite and its own major archbishop while recognising the jurisdiction of the bishop of Rome.

The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church keeps the Byzantine rite in full communion with Rome, so it receives the council's definitions along with the rest of the Roman magisterium.

The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church is in full communion with the bishop of Rome and holds the office as Rome defines it, while keeping the Byzantine rite.

The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church receives Chalcedon with the whole Byzantine inheritance, and with the later Roman councils besides.

The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church stands on the Florentine model of union, a church keeping the Byzantine rite and its own law while in communion with Rome.

Received by the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, which is in full communion with Rome and holds the Roman councils as well as the seven.

Received by the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, whose own recovery of its Byzantine liturgical practice was pressed by the council decree on the Eastern churches.

Received with the rest of the seven councils, which the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church holds alongside the Roman councils.

A Byzantine Catholic priest may be a married man, ordained under Eastern canon law while in full communion with a Latin church that ordinarily requires celibacy. It is the same order held on different terms.

From the Father through the Son. The Eastern Catholic churches recite the creed without the clause while in communion with Rome, which is the standing demonstration that the formula and the communion are separable.

The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, formed at the Union of Brest in 1596, retains Byzantine Rite apostolic succession and its own Major Archbishop while in full communion with Rome.

Baptism is by threefold immersion, followed at once by chrismation and communion.

This church uses the Byzantine rite, and does so while in full communion with Rome. It is not a Latin church with Eastern decoration and it is not an Orthodox church, and the reader who assumes either will misread it.

Monasticism follows the Studite and Basilian rules of the Christian East.

Kept in the Byzantine rite by a church in communion with Rome, moved to December 25 from the 2023 to 2024 liturgical year.

Confession follows the Byzantine form, the penitent standing beside the priest before an icon rather than kneeling in an enclosed box.

Chrismation is given with baptism by the presbyter, using myron, as in the Orthodox churches and unlike Latin practice.

The Liturgy of St Basil is served on the days the Byzantine calendar appoints for it.

The Liturgy of St John Chrysostom is the ordinary Sunday liturgy.

A married man may be ordained to the presbyterate, a right this church retained against long Latin pressure and exercises today.

Infants receive the full rite of initiation in one service, not the Latin sequence of baptism now and confirmation years later.

The Jesus Prayer belongs to this church through its Byzantine inheritance.

The Presanctified Liturgy is served on the weekdays of the Great Fast.

The Byzantine fasting calendar is kept, including the Great Fast and the Nativity Fast, rather than the shorter Latin discipline.

Marriage is the Byzantine crowning.

The daily cycle follows the Byzantine books in Ukrainian and Church Slavonic.

The seven mysteries are held with Rome, and administered in the Byzantine manner.

The Byzantine anaphoras are used.

The epiclesis follows the institution narrative, in the Byzantine order.

The Lord's Prayer stands where the Byzantine books put it.

Icons are venerated as in the Orthodox churches, and the iconostasis stands in these churches as it does in theirs.

The saints and the Theotokos are venerated, in the Byzantine forms rather than the Latin ones.

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