Other Catholic Churches

The Catholic Church is comprised of 6 different liturgical rites, and within those rites, there are 24 Churches. These 24 Churches are all in communion with one another, are all within the Catholic Church, and all recognize the primacy of the pope.

Latin Rite

1. Latin (or Roman) Catholic Church

Alexandrian Rite

1. Coptic Catholic Church

2. Eritrean Catholic Church

3. Ethiopian Catholic Church

West Syrian (or Antiochene) Rite

1. Maronite Catholic Church

2. Syriac Catholic Church

3. Syro-Malankara Catholic Church

Armenian Rite

1. Armenian Catholic Church

East Syrian (or Chaldean) Rite

1. Chaldean Catholic Church

2. Syro-Malabar Catholic Church

Constantinopolitan (or Byzantine) Rite

1. Albanian Catholic Church

2. Belarusian Catholic Church

3. Bulgarian Greek Catholic Church

4. Byzantine Church of Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro (or Križevci Catholic Church)

5. Greek Byzantine Catholic Church

6. Hungarian Greek Catholic Church

7. Italo-Albanian Catholic Church

8. Macedonian Catholic Church

9. Melkite Greek Catholic Church

10. Romanian Catholic Church

11. Russian Catholic Church

12. Ruthenian Catholic Church
    (known as the Byzantine Catholic Church in America)

13. Slovak Catholic Church

14. Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church

The Eastern Orthodox schism, also known as the Great Schism or the East-West Schism, was a split in the Christian church that occurred in 1054. Causes: The schism was caused by a combination of political conflicts and religious disagreements between the Eastern (Byzantine) and Western (Roman) branches of the church. These differences included the use of unleavened bread in communion, and the use of Greek and Latin as the primary languages of the Eastern and Western churches, respectively. Not in communion with Latin (Roman) Catholic Church.