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A2.308 Coptic Catholic Church-Coptic Rite (1741, Pope Benedict XIV named
Amba Athanasius as the Apostolic Representative of Coptic Catholics in
Egypt; in 1895-1899, Pope Leo XIII reestablished the Patriarchate of
Egypt under Bishop Cyril Makarios as Patriarch Cyril II of Alexander of
the Coptics; its headquarters is in Cairo, Egypt, and it has related
churches in Egypt, France, Canada, the USA and Australia)
A2.309 Armenian Catholic Church—Armenian Rite (this is a division of the
Apostolic Church of Armenia [founded in 301 by Saint Gregory in the
Kingdom of Armenia] that affiliated with the RCC in 1742 under Bishop
Abraham Ardzivian, known as Patriarch Abraham Pierre I, in the region
of Cilicia; its headquarters are in Beirut, Lebanon, and there are affiliated
churches in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Turkey, Iran, Egypt, Argentina, Brazil,
Uruguay, Venezuela and the USA)
A2.310 Orthodox Apostolic Catholic Church of Antioch - Syriac Catholic
Church, Syriac Rite (1782, Metropolitan Bishop Michael Jarweh of
Aleppo; its headquarters are in Beirut, Lebanon; it is a division of the
Orthodox Church Patriarchate of Antioch [Jabobite, Monophysite]
founded in the 5 th century; there are affiliated churches in Lebanon,
Syria, Iraq, Australia, Canada, the USA, Mexico, Brazil and Venezuela)
A2.311 Bulgarian Byzantine Catholic Church—Byzantine Rite (in 1861, Pope
Pius IX ordained Bishop Joseph Sokolsky as the Archbishop for
Bulgarian Catholics of the Byzantine Rite, with headquarters in
Constantinople; the Bulgarian Catholic Church was reorganized in 1926
with its headquarters in Sophia, Bulgaria)
A2.312 Syro-Malankara Catholic Church—Malankara Rite (a division of the
Syriac Orthodox Church, Patriarch of India, that affiliated with the RCC
in 1930; its headquarters are in the state of Kerala, India; there are
affiliated churches in India, Germany, the USA and Canada)
A2.313 Ge-ez Catholic Church—Ethiopian Rite (in 1961, the Metropolitan See
of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, was established with affiliated churches in
Ethiopia and Eritrea)
A2.399 Other similar churches
A2.400 OLD CATHOLIC MOVEMENT FAMILY
Overview: founded in Utrecht, Holland, 1870s; autonomous "Catholic"
churches in Europe (Holland, Germany, Austria, Poland, France,
Belgium, Czechoslovakia, England, Scotland, etc.) and the Americas
(mainly in the USA and Canada) that affirm the Confession of Utrecht
[1889] and reject the First Vatican Council's declaration of "papal
infallibility," while affirming the authority of the seven ecumenical
councils [held between 325-787 AD] and their respective creeds. See the
following links: http://www.americanchurch.org/history.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Catholic_Church
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