Byzantine Rite

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The Byzantine Rite, sometimes called Constantinopolitan, is the liturgical rite used (in various languages) by all the Eastern Orthodox Churches and by several Eastern Rite Catholic Churches. It originated in the city of Constantinople (now Istanbul), which had earlier been called Byzantium.

This tradition has three forms of the Divine Liturgy (liturgy of the Eucharist): that of St Basil, that of St John Chrysostom, and that of the Presanctified. That of St John Chrysostom is the one commonly said throughout the year; that of St Basil is said on all Sundays in Lent except Palm Sunday, on Holy Thursday, on the Vigils of Easter, Christmas and Epiphany, and on the feast of St Basil. The Liturgy of the Presanctified is said during Lent on the first five weekdays of each week. It is an office with a Communion but no Consecration, the five Holy Loaves necessary for the purpose (one for each day) having been consecrated on the previous Sunday.

1 List of Catholic particular Churches of Byzantine liturgical tradition
2 Books
3 See also (Eastern liturgical rites, other than the Byzantine)
4 Sources and references
5 External Links

[edit] List of Catholic particular Churches of Byzantine liturgical tradition

Albanian Byzantine Catholic Church
Belarusian Byzantine Catholic Church
Bulgarian Greek Catholic Church
Byzantine Church of the Eparchy of Križevci
Greek Byzantine Catholic Church
Greek-Catholic Melkite Church
Hungarian Greek Catholic Church
Italo-Albanian Catholic Church
Macedonian Byzantine Catholic Church
Romanian Church United with Rome, Greek-Catholic
Russian Catholic Church
Ruthenian Catholic Church
Slovak Greek Catholic Church
Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
Georgian Byzantine Catholics are not recognized as a particular church,canon 27 but as a separate grouping using the Byzantine Rite.

[edit] Books

Robert F. Taft, The Byzantine Rite. A Short History. Liturgical Press, Collegeville 1992, ISBN 0-8146-2163-5
Hugh Wybrew, The Orthodox Liturgy. The Development of the Eucharistic Liturgy in the Byzantine Rite, SPCK, London 1989, ISBN 0-281-04416-3
Hans-Joachim Schulz, Die byzantinische Liturgie : Glaubenszeugnis und Symbolgestalt, 3., völlig überarb. und aktualisierte Aufl. Paulinus, Trier 2000, ISBN 3-7902-1405-1
Robert A. Taft, A History of the Liturgy of St John Chrysostom, Pontificio Istituto Orientale, Roma 1978-2000 (3 volumes, of the planned 6, have appeared)