A survey of the development of a Byzantine Rite Eastern community united with Rome from it's beginnings as a movement in the seventeenth century, characterized by a de facto communion with Rome, and it's formal establishment as a distinct entity in the eighteenth century. The later shift from a communion of autonomous churches to one of communion with the Roman Church and the revival of the ecclesiology of sister churches in the era of Vatican II are assesed.
About the author: The Rev. Serge Descy is a heiromonk of the Greek-Melkite Catholic Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East. .
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