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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%).
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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