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    STUDIA THEOLOGIA%20GRAECO-CATHOLICA%20VARADIENSIS - Issue no. 2 / 2008  
         
  Article:   THE PLACE OF ROMANIAN CHURCH AMONG THE CONSTANTINOPOLITAN RITES CHURCHES .

Authors:  ALEXANDRU BUZALIC. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  The place of Romanian church among the constantinopolitan rites Churches. The Romanian „Catholic Church” is a Catholic church which belongs to the Eastern Rites, and is one of the official churches of Romania. The Romanian Catholic Church refers to the Eastern Rite, or Greek-Catholic, system of belief. The spiritual heritage of the Byzantine Catholic Church is the same given to us by the Apostles and which matured in the Christian East, during the period of the Byzantine Empire. This heritage includes the doctrines, liturgical practices and underlying theology and spirituality which came from the Christian Church of the Byzantine Empire. This heritage is shared among all of the Christian peoples, regardless of ethnicity or nationality, who trace their spiritual roots to the Great Church of Constantinople, and the Byzantine religious culture which grew from that Church. From the First Millennium, Christians of the Byzantine tradition have referred to themselves as "Orthodox Christians". Byzantine Catholics are Orthodox Christians who embrace full communion with the Church of Rome and its primate, the Pope, the successor of St. Peter, the first among the Apostles.

Keywords: Romanian church, eastern rite, Catholic Church, greek-catholic
  
         
     
         
         
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