Is there an American Eastern Catholic Church?
Eastern Catholic Churches are, by definition, from Eastern countries such as Romania and the Ukraine. The US is a Western country, so it has no indigenous Eastern Catholic Church. Many Eastern Catholic Churches have eparchies and parishes in the US to serve immigrant communities here, but these do not actually constitute an “American Eastern Catholic Church”. The closest thing we have to that is the Ruthenian Catholic Church in America. Though still part of the Ruthenian Catholic Church, it has become so ethnically mixed that it now just calls itself “The Byzantine Catholic Church in America”. Its Liturgy is celebrated in English, and it is basically as close as any Eastern Catholic Church in America gets to being an “American Eastern Catholic Church”. • Do Eastern Catholics pray the Rosary? Some do. The Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a Western Catholic prayer, but some Eastern Catholics choose to include it in their personal devotions. Eastern Christians also have their own
