Unity and Diversity in the Church

Unity and Diversity in the Church

8th Grade · Social Studies · 45 min

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Learning Objective

I can describe how different rites express unity and diversity within the Catholic Church.

  • 1

    While the Roman Catholic Church is the largest, there are 16 million Catholics who belong to Churches formerly connected with Orthodoxy and are now in full communion with Rome.

  • 2

    A rite is a liturgical, theological, spiritual, and disciplinary heritage distinguished according to peoples' culture and historical circumstances.

  • 3

    The three main rites from which all modern rites trace their lineage are the Latin Rite from Rome, the Antiochian Rite from Antioch, and the Alexandrian Rite from Alexandria.