The Western Rites
Subdivisions | By whom and where used | Liturgical Languages |
Ambrosian | Northern Italy | Latin |
Gallician | France | Latin |
Monastic | The monastic orders of western Europe | Latin |
Mosarabic | Spain | Latin |
Roman – Latin | Central and W. Europe, N. and S. America, Asia, Africa, Australia, Bohemia, Praha |
Latin, Glagonic, Slavonic |
The Eastern Rites
Subdivisions | By whom and where used | Liturgical Languages |
Alexandrine | Copts (Egypt) Ethiopians |
Coptic Geez |
Antiochion | Malakarese (India) Maronites (Near East) Syrians (Mesopotamia, Syria, India, U.S.A.) |
Aramaic Arabic Aramaic |
Armenian | Near East, U.S.A. | Armenian |
Greek or Byzantine |
Bulgarians Georgians (Russia) Greece, Near East Italo-Greeks (southern Italy, Sicily, U.S.A.) Croatians Melchites (Near East, U.S.A.) Rumanians (Rumania, U.S.A.) Russians (Poland, Russia, America, Far East) Ruthenians (Czechoslovakia, Rus- sia, Hungary, Rumania, U.S.A.) Hungary |
Bulgarian Georgian Greek Greek Slavonic Arabic Rumanian SlavonicSlavonic Magyar |
Chaldean | Chaldean (Near East, U.S.A.) Malaberese (India) |
Aramaic Aramaic |