Eastern Catholicism

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Proper noun

Eastern Catholicism

  1. The faith, practices, etc. of the Eastern Catholic Churches.
    • 1875, C. Joyneville [pseudonym; Catherine Laura Johnstone], “1815–1818. Russia at Peace. Ætat. 37–40.”, in Life and Times of Alexander I., Emperor of All the Russias. […], volume III, London: Tinsley Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 222:
      No clergy in the world were more tolerant than those of Russia, but this was naturally more than they could support when added to the wavering faith of the Empress-mother, whose family were Romanists; and they appealed to the Emperor, as the head and sworn protector of orthodoxy, to check the mischievous intrigues which had taken advantage of his absence to undermine the foundations of Eastern Catholicism.
    • 1983 May 1, Alfred Kazin, “Writing out of the Polish Agony”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
      He [Czesław Miłosz] lovingly recalls what Polish culture owes to Latin and the cultural unity with the West inspired by the Catholic Church; Russia would have escaped its cultural isolation if it had drawn its faith from Byzantium's Eastern Catholicism.
    • 1997 May 10, Susan Abram, “Eastern Catholicism”, in Los Angeles Times‎[1], Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 June 2025:
      EASTERN CATHOLICISM: The East San Fernando District of the Los Angeles Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women will hold its final meeting of the year, featuring the Rev. John Azar, who will discuss the background and architecture of the Eastern Catholic Churches.

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