Different churches?

Question

Is the Wallachian Church a Catholic Church? What about Greek Orthodox or Armenian? Are they Catholic?
Just curious.

Answer 1

There is One, Holy, Apostolic and Catholic Church, in seven main Rites - all branches of one Tradition. One of those Rites is the Armenian. Armenian Catholics have much liturgically in common with the break off Armenians, that were one of the earliest national break-off sects to leave Catholic Unity. But all Armenien Rite Christians derive from the part of the Catholic Church long ago established in Armenia.

All seven Rites acknowledge the Pope, and submit to his Apostolate. The Assyrians are not torn over that - it was Greek Rite, not Latin Rite, people that exiled the Nestorians -, but they want all the peculiarities of their Rite to be maintained as Catholics.
Another Rite is the Byzantine Rite, which is the Greek Rite still in Communion with the rest of the Catholic Church. The so-called "Greek Orthodox" descend from Eastern Catholics that sided with the Byzantine emperor, and created a rift with the rest of the Catholic Church. But the Catholics still using the Liturgy of the Byzantine branch of ancient Catholic Tradition are not part of that rift.

There are Wallachian Catholics, and their Rite is likely the Byzantine.

The Rite in Italy and other nations of the same Rite is called Latin, not Roman. There are also Alexandrian, Maronite, Syriac and Chaldean Rites. The Nestorian, or Assyrian, never meant to leave the Catholic Fold, but was thrust out of the then Catholic Byzantine society, for non-Catholic, imperialistic politics. The Popes have been working out how to recieve them back into the Catholic Community - they would then be an eighth, it would seem. But they derive from the Catholic Church in their Liturgy, etc.

The Byzantine Rite (Ukrainian language) Priest in my city confesses to the Latin Rite Priests of my city, if he has a fault to confess, but he never goes to the Ukrainian-speaking Greek Orthodox priest down the street, even though they are friends. He acknowledges the Pope, even though his Liturgy is mostly the same as the non-Pope-recognizing "Orthodox" Church's down the street.

Answer 2

Not familiar with the Wallachian Church. The various Orthodox Churches - Greek, Armenian, Russian, Serbian are rooted in the collapse of the Roman Empire and the division of the civilized western world between Rome (and several other cities as the Pope moved around) and Constantinopal. Constantine made the Roman Empire into the Holy Roman Empire, but during the Dark Ages, the Orthodox Church stayed with what it considered the original Christian Church beliefs and rituals. As the Catholic Church has become more and more open, the Orthodox Church has maintained hidden ritual and priests doing all the rituals.

Answer 3

No they're different. The only Catholic churches are Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Catholic. I think the Greek Orthodox and Eastern Orthodox are the same thing but I'm not entirely sure.

Answer 4

Another thing to keep in mind besides the different dogma of different denominations is which bible they use. Many Christians insist that there is only one Bible; that is incredibly, willfully ignorant.

The term Canonical means accepted by the church in their version of the bible.
The term Apocrypha can mean books of interest or ones that contain predictions that have not yet come true. They are not Canonical, but are not seen as totally wrong.
Many churches see their own Canon as literally true and the Apocrypha as metaphorical or historical fiction of interest. This has been a source of much in-fighting between denominations.

Example: Sampson is in the Jewish and most (but not all) Christian canon, but not in the Muslim Quran.
The story of Lilith is in the Jewish Apocrytha but not even in the Christian Apocrytha.
The list goes on and on.

Answer 5

Neither of those with all respect are Catholic Church beacouse they not recognize Roman Pope for the head master of Chatolic Church. They have own elected head masters.

Answer 6

it is some of the different languages used by the catholic church to celebrate holy mass.