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The Maronite Church
The Maronite Church owes its name to Saint Maroun (d. 410), a Syriac ascetic from the Orontes Valley. The original community distinguished itself at…
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The Greek Catholic Church of Romania
The Romanian people came into being, both ethnically and spiritually, during the Roman conquest of Dacia (101–105). In the 9th century, following the Bulgarian…
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The Syriac Catholic Church
The Syriac Church is one of the branches of the Church of Antioch, whose apostolic see was established in the year 37 A.D. by…
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The Syro-Malankara Church
In 1653, a group of Malabar Christians rejected Latinization and joined the Syriac Church known as the “Jacobite” Church. They now called themselves Malankars.…
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The Syro-Malabar Church
After Mesopotamia, Saint Thomas the Apostle reached the Malabar Coast in western India in A.D. 52, and then the east coast, where he died…
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The Greek Catholic Church of Ukraine
In 988, the baptism of Vladimir, Grand Prince of Kievan Rus’, and all his subjects marked the beginning of the evangelization of the region.…
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The Greek Melkite Catholic Church
The Melkite Greek Catholic Church is an Eastern Church of the Byzantine rite. The word “Melkite” comes from the Syriac word “malko,” which means…
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The Ethiopian and Eritrean Churches
Christianity arrived in Ethiopia in the 4th century thanks to two young Syrians, Frumence and Edesi, who were held captive at the court of…
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The Chaldean Church
The Church of the East, from which the Chaldean Church originated, was founded in Mesopotamia—at that time part of the Persian Empire—by Saint Thomas…
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The Coptic Catholic Church
According to tradition, the Coptic Church was founded by Saint Mark the Evangelist in Alexandria. As early as the 2nd century, it established a…
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