Eastern Catholic churches
23 Eastern Christian churches in full communion with Rome / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Eastern Catholic Churches are autocephalous Christian churches. They recognize the Bishop of Rome as their spiritual leader, like other Catholics.They differ on ideas as how a mass should be organised, or which prayers are more important than others.
In total there are 23 such churches, the probably best known are listed below:
- Coptic Catholic Church
- Maronite Church
- Armenian Catholic Church
- Chaldean Catholic Church
- Syro-Malabar Catholic Church
- Syro-Malankara Catholic Church