Numbers
| Part of a series on |
| Christianity |
|---|
Jesus · Christ
|
Bible and Foundations
|
Theology
|
History and tradition
|
General topics
|
Denominations and Branches
|
| Christianity portal |
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%).
| 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 | - |
Read more about this topic: Eastern Catholic Churches
Famous quotes containing the word numbers:
“Out of the darkness where Philomela sat,
Her fairy numbers issued. What then ailed me?
My ears are called capacious but they failed me,
Her classics registered a little flat!
I rose, and venomously spat.”
—John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974)
“The barriers of conventionality have been raised so high, and so strangely cemented by long existence, that the only hope of overthrowing them exists in the union of numbers linked together by common opinion and effort ... the united watchword of thousands would strike at the foundation of the false system and annihilate it.”
—Mme. Ellen Louise Demorest 1824–1898, U.S. women’s magazine editor and woman’s club movement pioneer. Demorest’s Illustrated Monthly and Mirror of Fashions, p. 203 (January 1870)
“What culture lacks is the taste for anonymous, innumerable germination. Culture is smitten with counting and measuring; it feels out of place and uncomfortable with the innumerable; its efforts tend, on the contrary, to limit the numbers in all domains; it tries to count on its fingers.”
—Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985)