Origins
Western Orthodox Christians look back to times before the Great Schism when the Eastern Orthodox and Western Churches were united. At that time a variety of different liturgies were used in the West, with no specific move towards ritual uniformity, although the Roman Rite was most influential. In the East, the Byzantine Rite was the most prominent of a variety of different local rites. When the Latin-speaking Western Church and the Greek-speaking Eastern Church parted, many of the Churches in communion with Constantinople used the Byzantine Rite, though there were still places where other liturgies (including the Roman Rite) were used. The Byzantine Rite, especially after the thirteenth century, came to dominate the Orthodox world almost to the point of exclusion of any other liturgy. This began to change slowly in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as western Christians converting to Orthodoxy retained their familiar forms of worship.
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