Core tenet of The Eastern Catholic Churches
In communion with Rome, not absorbed by it.
Full communion with the pope, full retention of Eastern liturgy, law, and theology — unity, on this account, was never meant to mean uniformity.
Understanding it — context, not catechism: how this passage is held
The Eastern Catholic churches — Ukrainian Greek Catholic, Maronite, Melkite, Syro-Malabar and about twenty others — are in full communion with Rome while keeping Eastern liturgy, married clergy, and their own canon law. Their existence is contested from the Orthodox side, which regards most of them as the fruit of Catholic proselytism and calls the arrangement uniatism; Rome has since 1993 agreed not to pursue that model further while affirming the existing churches' legitimacy.
The same ground, other faiths
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The splits.
Christianity · community
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Councils, not one bishop, speak for the Church.
Eastern Orthodoxy
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The whole quarrel may have been about words.
The Coptic Orthodox Church
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Who leads, and who is allowed to.
The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church · community
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The Catholicos of the East sits in India.
The Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church
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The see came home in 2015.
The Assyrian Church of the East · community
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