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The Catholic Church and Its Rites

The Western Rites

Subdivisions
By whom and where used
Liturgical Languages
Ambrosian Northern Italy Latin
Gallician France Latin
Monastic The monastic orders of western Europe Latin
Mosarabic       Spain Latin
Roman - Latin Central and W. Europe, N. and S. America, Asia,  
Africa, Australia, Bohemia, Praha
Latin, Glagonic, Slavonic

The Eastern Rites

Subdivisions
By whom and where used
Liturgical
Languages
Alexandrine Copts (Egypt)
Ethiopians
Coptic
Geez
Antiochion Malakarese (India)
Maronites (Near East)
Syrians (Mesopotamia, Syria, India, U.S.A.)
Aramaic
Arabic
Aramaic
Armenian Near East, U.S.A. Armenian
Greek or
  Byzantine
Bulgarians
Georgians (Russia)
Greece, Near East
Italo-Greeks (southern Italy, Sicily, U.S.A.)
Croatians
Melchites (Near East, U.S.A.)
Rumanians (Rumania, U.S.A.)
Russians (Poland, Russia,
  America, Far East)
Ruthenians (Czechoslovakia, Rus-
  sia, Hungary, Rumania, U.S.A.)
Hungary
Bulgarian
Georgian
Greek
Greek
Slavonic
Arabic
Rumanian
Slavonic

Slavonic

Magyar
Chaldean Chaldean (Near East, U.S.A.)
Malaberese (India)
Aramaic
Aramaic

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