Uniate Church

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Uniate Church (countable and uncountable, plural Uniate Churches)

  1. Any of several Christian Churches, mostly from Eastern Europe, that are in communion with the Roman Catholic Church, but use their own language and customs.
    • For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:Uniate Church.

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  • Eastern Catholic Church

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References

  • Campbell, Gordon (2003), Uniate Churches”, in The Oxford dictionary of the renaissance, Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford University Press, published 2005, →ISBN
  • Bowker, John (2000), Uniat(e) Churches”, in The concise Oxford dictionary of world religions, Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford University Press, published 2003, →ISBN: “More properly Eastern Catholic or Eastern-rite Catholic Churches.”
  • Cross, Frank L.; Livingstone, Elizabeth A., editors (2005), Uniat Churches”, in The Oxford dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd edition, Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford University Press, published 2009, →ISBN, pages 1669–1670
  • "Uniate Church" in WordNet 3.0, Princeton University, 2006.
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