The National Association of Melkite Women was founded in 1986 by Archbishop Joseph Tawil, of blessed memory. Our purpose is to promote and support vocations to the priesthood and …

During Vatican II, it was Melkite Patriarch Maximos IV who spoke on behalf of the “absent brother”, the great Orthodox Church. And so, today, the Melkite Catholics are a small but …

When that happened, a new nationalist identity (eg. Syrian or Lebanese) began to emerge and the Churches began losing their tribal functions. The Melkite community started to look …

The Melkite Catholic Church is an Eastern Catholic Church of the Byzantine rite, in full communion with the Holy See in Rome, as a part of the global Catholic Church. We are …

Immediately after Baptism, the candidate is anointed with Holy Chrism – a special mixture of oil and spices consecrated each year on Holy Thursday by the Patriarch for all the Melkite-Greek …

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But if size or persecution explains why other Churches played no notable corporate role at Vatican II, this does not explain why the Melkite Church did. To what, then, can one attribute the …

Melkite Ambassadors Who are the Melkites? For a long time the principle of the superiority of the Roman rite, which had become general during the Middle Ages, prevailed in the West.

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