Western Orthodox rite
The Orthodox Western Rite or Orthodox Western Rite ( English. The Orthodox Western Rite ) is a syncretistic Christian rite of occidental coloring, which is practiced in a number of Orthodox churches as a minority rite .
The Western rite also serves as a collective term for the reuse of liturgies or monastic ways of life that have not been in use for centuries , which are adapted to actual or assumed needs for Orthodox use in the present . So everything is removed from a pre-conciliar template, for example the Ambrosian rite , which seems incompatible with the orthodoxy of our day, or vice versa, the Ambrosian rite is "reconstructed" as it could have looked before 1054 and added according to the Byzantine rite .
The western rite is thus a canonical problem, because the orthodox canon law relates to the orthodox eastern rite , while the western rites have peculiarities that are incompatible with this canon law , which is only valid in contemporary orthodoxy. Therefore there are numerous variations in the contemporary Western rite with the intention of adapting the historical occidental rites to orthodox practices. This leads to a Byzantinisierung so that the characteristics of the Western rite rites mixing counts.
The idea and the associated efforts for ecclesiastical recognition within a canonical orthodox jurisdiction go back to the native Westphalia Julian Joseph Overbeck (1820–1905). The western rite communities and monasteries are under the following jurisdictions (as of January 2020):
- Russian Orthodox Church Abroad - Under the Omophorion of the First Hierarch
- Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch
- Romanian Orthodox Church
- Orthodox Church in America
- Église Orthodox Catholique de France - is since 1993 with no canonical Orthodox Church in sacramental communion .
Most of the Western Rite Churches are currently located in the United States (as of January 2020).
literature
- Maria Hämmerli & Jean-Francoise Mayer (eds.): Orthodox Identities in Western Europe: Migration, Settlement and Innovation. Farnham: Ashgate, 2014.
Web links
- Jack Turner: Cum illi Graeci sint, nos autem Latini (2010 dissertation on Western Rite Orthodoxy and the Eastern Orthodox Church at the University of Wales)
- Kristina Stoeckl: Review of the book Orthodox Identities in Western Europe ISBN 978-1-4094-6754-0 .
- Literature review