Eastern & Oriental Catholic Directory

4. Place Names - Asterisks & Numbers?

What Does An Asterisk (*) After a Place Name Mean?

An asterisk (*) after a place name denotes that its entry is cross-listed in two categories or subcategories. This can occur in two instances:

The entry for a temple that, presently or historically, was established to serve an identifiable constituent sub-group of a Church sui iuris will be cross-listed to both the sub-group and to its parent Church sui iuris.

  • Example: The entry for a Russian Catholic Old Ritualist temple will be cross-listed to both the Russian Catholic Old Ritualists and to the Russian Greek-Catholic Church.

The entry for a temple that, presently or historically, was established by a Church sui iuris to afford pastoral care to the faithful of another, different, Church sui iuris will be cross-listed to both Churches sui iuris.

  • Example: Faithful of the Hungarian (Magyar) Greek-Catholic Church have no canonical jurisdiction in Canada. Pastoral care is afforded to them by the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church (UGCC).  Parishes erected by the UGCC to serve the Hungarian faithful are cross-listed to both Churches sui iuris.

What Does A Number After A Place Name Mean?

It was decided that, when there are (or were) more than a single temple in a particular city or town, the entries would be alphabetically ordered by the names of the temples. The first entry has no number after the place name. Subsequent entries are numbered beginning with zero (0) and continuing through nine (9). In instances when there are more than eleven (11) temples in a particular city or town, numbers higher than 9 appear as 91, 92, etc (because the software used in the directory counts differently than humans do).

  • Example: If there were three temples in city of Los Alamos, New Mexico,  the place name entries would be listed numerically as follows (thus, alphabetizing the church names):
  • NM: Los Alamos       (Byzantine Outreach of Los Alamos)
  • NM: Los Alamos - 0 (St Addai Chaldean Catholic Church)
  • NM: Los Alamos - 1 (St John the Baptist Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church)

 

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Wisdom from the Church Fathers

The soul has followed Moses and the cloud, both of these serving as guides for those who would advance in virtue; Moses here represents the commandments of the Law; and the cloud that leads the way, its spiritual meaning. The soul has been purified by crossing the Sea; it has removed from itself and destroyed the enemy army. It has tasted of the waters of Marah, that is, of life deprived of all sinful pleasure; and this at first had seemed bitter and unpleasant to the taste but offered a sensation of sweetness to those who accepted the wood. Next it enjoyed the beauty of the palm trees of the gospel and the springs; it filled itself with the living water, that is, the rock. It took within itself the bread of heaven. It overwhelmed the foreign host - a victory due to the extended arms of the Lawgiver, which thus foreshadowed the mystery of the Cross. Only then can the soul go on to the contemplation of transcendent Being.

St. Gregory of Nyssa