What's the difference between Syrian and Roman Catholic??

Answer 1

Hello,

A Syrian is a citizen of the country, Syria and a Roman Catholic pertains to the religion Roman Catholicism.
By the way, Syria is an Islamic country. I never heard the term called Syrian - Catholic.

Michael

Answer 2

It's just Catholocism with a little different flavor, yet sitll, just as wrong.


Semi-autonomous Christian church, which is affiliated to the Roman Catholic Church through the Eastern Rite. By this, the Syrian branch is allowed to retain its customs and rites, even when these differ from the traditions of the Roman church.
They follow the liturgy of St. James, which even today is performed in Syriac. Syriac is still spoken in some few communities in eastern Syria and northern Iraq, but for most, Arabic is the vernacular language.

The official centre of their church is Antakya, Turkey, but the Patriarch has not been there for centuries, when he moved between several cities in Syria and Lebanon. Today, he has his headquarters in Beirut, Lebanon. The Patriarch always takes the name "Ignatius" added to his other names.
Despite its name, the Syrian Catholic Church is today strongest in Iraq and Lebanon.

Many Syrian Catholic priests are today married, even if they legally are bound to celibacy since 1888.

Answer 3

Actually there are over 20 different Catholic Churches that make up the worldwide Catholic Church including Latin (Roman) Catholics and Syrian Catholics.

In addition to the Latin Rite (Roman) Catholic Church, the Eastern Rite Catholic Churches are in full communion with the Pope, and are part of the same worldwide Catholic Church.

Eastern Rite Catholic Churches include:

Alexandrian liturgical tradition
+ Coptic Catholic Church
+ Ethiopic Catholic Church

Antiochian (Antiochene or West-Syrian) liturgical tradition
+ Maronite Church
+ Syrian Catholic Church
+ Syro-Malankara Catholic Church

Armenian liturgical tradition:
+ Armenian Catholic Church

Chaldean or East Syrian liturgical tradition:
+ Chaldean Catholic Church
+ Syro-Malabar Church

Byzantine (Constantinopolitan) liturgical tradition:
+ Albanian Byzantine Catholic Church
+ Belarusian Greek Catholic Church
+ Bulgarian Greek Catholic Church
+ Byzantine Church of the Eparchy of Križevci
+ Greek Byzantine Catholic Church
+ Hungarian Greek Catholic Church
+ Italo-Albanian Catholic Church
+ Macedonian Greek Catholic Church
+ Melkite Greek Catholic Church
+ Romanian Church
+ Russian Byzantine Catholic Church
+ Ruthenian Catholic Church
+ Slovak Greek Catholic Church
+ Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13121a.htm

The Syrian Catholic Church follow the liturgy of St. James, which even today is performed in the Syriac language. Syriac is still spoken in some few communities in eastern Syria and northern Iraq. There are about 200,000 Syrian Catholics.

http://www.syriac-catholic.org/
http://www.cnewa.org/ecc-bodypg-us.aspx?eccpageID=65&IndexView=toc
http://i-cias.com/e.o/syr_cath.htm

With love in Christ.

Answer 4

It appears that their liturgy is attributed to St James.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14417a.htm

here is an excerpt:
The Jacobite sect kept a version of this rite which is obviously a local variant. Its scheme and most of its prayers correspond to those of the Greek St. James; but it has amplifications and omissions, such as we find in all local forms of early rites. It seems too that the Jacobites after the schism made some modifications. We know this for certain in one point (the Trisagion). The first Jacobite writer on their rite is James of Edessa (d. 708), who wrote a letter to a priest Thomas comparing the Syrian Liturgy with that of Egypt.

The Trisagion is a part of the mass that RCs do not have. I believe it goes like this:
"Holy God, Holy and Mighty, Holy and Immortal One, Have mercy on us." (3X)

Answer 5

A Syrian is only from Syria. Roman Catholics can be from anywhere.
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Answer 6

honestly i dont know. i thought there was only one type of catholic.