Eastern Catholic Churches - Numbers

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Eastern Catholic Churches make up a small percentage of the membership in the Catholic Church when compared to the Latin Rite, which has over one billion members. The 2008 statistics collected by the CNEWA show that Syriac Christians make up 47% of Eastern Catholics and Byzantine Christians make up 46%. The three largest Eastern churches are the Byzantine Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church with 4.3 million members (25%), the Syriac Syro-Malabar Catholic Church at 3.9 million faithful (23%), and the Maronite Catholic Church with 3.29 million faithful (20%).

Eastern Catholic Churches, 2010; data from CNEWA
Name Juridical status Population Eparchies /
Jurisdictions		 Bishops
Albanian Byzantine Catholic Church Eparchial church 3,845 1 1
Armenian Catholic Church Patriarchate 593,459 17 15
Bulgarian Greek Catholic Church Eparchial church 10,000 1 1
Chaldean Catholic Church Patriarchate 490,371 22 17
Coptic Catholic Church Patriarchate 163,630 7 10
Ethiopian Catholic Church Metropolitanate 229,547 6 7
Eparchy of Krizevci Eparchial church 58,915 3 4
Greek Byzantine Catholic Church Eparchial church 2,525 2 1
Hungarian Byzantine Catholic Church Eparchial church 290,000 2 2
Italo-Albanian Byzantine Catholic Church Eparchial church 61,487 3 2
Maronite Catholic Church Patriarchate 3,290,539 25 41
Melkite Greek-Catholic Church Patriarchate 1,614,604 25 30
Romanian Greek-Catholic Church Major Archiepiscopate 707,452 6 8
Ruthenian Byzantine Catholic Church Metropolitanate (in USA) 646,243 6 7
Slovak Byzantine Catholic Church Metropolitanate 239,394 4 5
Syriac Catholic Church Patriarchate 158,818 14 10
Syro-Malabar Catholic Church Major Archiepiscopate 3,828,591 27 40
Syro-Malankara Catholic Church Major Archiepiscopate 420,081 6 8
Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church Major Archiepiscopate 5,350,735 31 44
Other jurisdictions Ordinariates 147,600 5 -


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