The Eastern Catholic churches are self-governing as well as part of the Catholic community, in full communion with the Bishop of Rome, pope. They are therefore designated by the Latin expression sui iuris (of one’s own right). In contrast with Latin Catholic, Byzantine Catholic and Greek Catholic describe those who belong to these churches that use the Byzantine Rite. The terms Oriental or Eastern Catholic are broader, given that they also cover Catholics who follow the Alexandrian, Antiochian, Armenian, or Chaldean liturgical traditions. The Church is always bigger than we think.
This is a list of the 22 Eastern Catholic Churches:
Albanian Byzantine Catholic Church (Albania)
Armenian Catholic Church (Armenia)
Belarusian Greek Catholic Church (Belarus)
Bulgarian Greek Catholic Church (Bulgaria)
Chaldean Catholic Church (Iraq)
Coptic Catholic Church (Egypt)
Eparchy of Krizevci (Croatia)
Ethiopian Catholic Church (Ethiopia)
Greek Byzantine Catholic Church (Greece)
Hungarian Byzantine Catholic Church (Hungary)
Italo-Albanian Byzantine Catholic Church (Italy)
Macedonian Greek Catholic Church (Macedonia)
Maronite Catholic Church (Lebanon)
Melkite Greek-Catholic Church (Syria)
Romanian Greek-Catholic Church (Romania)
Russian Catholic Church (Russia)
Ruthenian Byzantine Catholic Church (Ukraine)
Slovak Byzantine Catholic Church (Slovakia)
Syriac Catholic Church (Lebanon)
Syro-Malabar Catholic Church (India)
Syro-Malankara Catholic Church (India)
Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church (Ukraine)
