Catholic Church (disambiguation)

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The name Catholic Church (literally "universal church") is used to refer to a number of entities and conceptualizations, viz.

• The Roman Catholic Church, often called simply the "Catholic Church", is made up of twenty-three particular Churches which are all in full communion with the See of Rome, headed by the Pope.
• The Eastern Orthodox Church also identifies as "Catholic", as in the title of The Longer Catechism of the Orthodox, Catholic, Eastern Church known also as The Catechism of St. Philaret.
• The Old Catholic Church, the Polish National Catholic Church, the Orthodox Catholic Church, and other independent Catholic Churches incorporate the term "Catholic Church" in their name.
• Other Christian denominations identify explicitly as "Catholic", based on their affirmation of the Nicene Creed, but do not include the term in their proper names (as, for example, within Anglicanism and Lutheranism).
• Where "catholic church" is interpreted as encompassing all Christians, most Christian denominations will describe themselves as "catholic" and understand in this sense their affirmation, in the Nicene Creed and/or the Apostles' Creed, of belief in the 'One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church'.
• According to an Anglican theological concept called the Branch Theory, the "Catholic Church" is an entity consisting of three "branches" of Catholic and Apostolic Christianity: the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Anglican Communion. Neither the Catholic nor the Orthodox Church accept this theory, nor is it official Anglican doctrine.

Contents 1 Particular Churches in the Catholic Church 2 Orthodox 2.1 Orthodox Churches of the Eastern Orthodox tradition (Churches in full communion with the See of Constantinople) 2.2 Other Orthodox Churches in the Eastern Orthodox tradition 2.3 Orthodox Churches in the Oriental Orthodox tradition 2.4 The Assyrian Church of the East 3 See also

[edit] Particular Churches in the Catholic Church

• Of Alexandrian liturgical tradition:
  • Coptic Catholic Church
  • Ethiopic Catholic Church
• Of Antiochian liturgical tradition:
  • Maronite Church
  • Syrian Catholic Church
  • Syro-Malankara Catholic Church
• Of Armenian liturgical tradition:
  • Armenian Catholic Church
• Of Byzantine (Constantinopolitan) liturgical tradition:
  • Albanian Byzantine Catholic Church
  • Belarusian Greek Catholic Church
  • Bulgarian Greek Catholic Church
  • Byzantine Church of the Eparchy of Križevci
  • Greek Byzantine Catholic Church
  • Hungarian Greek Catholic Church
  • Italo-Albanian Catholic Church
  • Macedonian Greek Catholic Church
  • Melkite Greek Catholic Church
  • Romanian Church United with Rome, Greek-Catholic
  • Russian Byzantine Catholic Church
  • Ruthenian Catholic Church
  • Slovak Greek Catholic Church
  • Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
• Of Chaldean or East Syrian tradition:
  • Chaldean Catholic Church
  • Syro-Malabar Church
• Of Western liturgical tradition:
  • Latin Church

[edit] Orthodox

[edit] Orthodox Churches of the Eastern Orthodox tradition (Churches in full communion with the See of Constantinople)

• Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople
  • Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
  • Finnish Orthodox Church
  • American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese
• Orthodox Church of Alexandria
• Church of Antioch
  • Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America
• Orthodox Church of Jerusalem
• Russian Orthodox Church
  • Japanese Orthodox Church
  • Ukrainian Orthodox Church - Moscow Patriarchy (UOC-MP) (Ukrainian only)
  • Hungarian Orthodox Church - Moscow Patriarchy (Hungarian and Russian only)
• Georgian Orthodox and Apostolic Church
• Church of Serbia
  • Orthodox Ohrid Archbishopric (Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia)
• Romanian Orthodox Church
• Bulgarian Orthodox Church
• Church of Cyprus
• Church of Greece
• Church of Albania
• Polish Orthodox Church (Polish only)
• Czech and Slovak Orthodox Church (Czech or Slovak only)
• Orthodox Church in America

[edit] Other Orthodox Churches in the Eastern Orthodox tradition

• Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia
• Church of the Genuine Orthodox Christians of Greece
• Macedonian Orthodox Church

[edit] Orthodox Churches in the Oriental Orthodox tradition

• The Armenian Apostolic Church
• The Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria
  • The British Orthodox Church
• The Eritrean Orthodox Tewahdo Church
• The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church
• The Malankara Jacobite Syriac Orthodox Church
• The Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church of the East (also known as the Indian Orthodox Church)
• The Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch (also known as the Syrian Orthodox Church)

[edit] The Assyrian Church of the East

• Assyrian Church of the East

[edit] See also

For technical and theological discussions of the term and its attributions see:

• Catholic
• Catholicism
• One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church