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| | The key roles are played by the Pope and the bishops, and the question of whether secular governments should play a major role in ecclesiastical appointments has been a major issue for centuries. The [[Investiture Controversy]] in the [[Holy Roman Empire]] was over this question, as was the dispute between [[Gallicanism]] and [[ultramontanism]] in France. | | The key roles are played by the Pope and the bishops, and the question of whether secular governments should play a major role in ecclesiastical appointments has been a major issue for centuries. The [[Investiture Controversy]] in the [[Holy Roman Empire]] was over this question, as was the dispute between [[Gallicanism]] and [[ultramontanism]] in France. |
| | + | == Roman Catholic Church Rites(branches)== |
| | + | The Roman Catholic Church has many Rites (branches) <ref> https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/resource/56009/the-rites-of-the-catholic-church</ref> The Latin Rite is directly under the Pope and has more than 90 percent of Roman Catholics. The others recognize the Pope as their shepherd but are administered by either a Patriarch, a Major Archbishop, a Metropolitan, or have some other arrangement. Patriarchs are elected by a synod of bishops of their Rite, and then request ecclesiastical communion from the Pope. Major Archbishops are also elected by a synod of bishops of their Rite, but then are approved by the Pope before they take office. Metropolitans are picked by the Pope from a list given by a synod of bishops. These Rites choose their own bishops. Each has its own cannon law and choose it own bishops; many rites have married catholic priests. These Rites may have their own dioceses in [[Christianity_in_North_America | North America]] and [[Christianity_in_South_America | South America]]. Most people only know of the Latin Rite dioceses. Below is a list of the Rites |
| | + | *Latin Rite is directly under the Pope and has more than 90 percent of Roman Catholics. |
| | + | *Armenia Rite in Armenia. |
| | + | *Maronite Rite in Lebanon. |
| | + | *Chaldean Rite in Iran and Iraq. |
| | + | *Syriac Rite based in Syria. |
| | + | Some of the leaders of the Rites below reside in the same nation as the leader of an [[Eastern_Orthodox_Church | Orthodox Church]] that became separate churches due to the [[Great Schism]] in 1054. |
| | + | *Byzantine Rite 2nd largest Rite. The churches using the Byzantine liturgy include the Albanian, Belarussian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Greek, Hungarian, Italo-Albanian, Melkite, Romanian, Russian, Ruthenian, Slovak, and Ukrainian. |
| | + | *Alexandria Rite in Alexandria Egypt. |
| | + | *Ge'ez Rite based in Ethiopia. |
| | + | *Malankarese Rite in India. |
| | + | *Malabar Rite in India. |
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| | ==Teachings== | | ==Teachings== |