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Can someone explain the term Sui Iuris ?
I am a Latin Rite Catholic and sometimes some new terms confuse me.
My mother was Byzantine Rite. My grandfather was supposedly Orthodox for a time before becoming Byzantine Rite.
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Dear Roamin' Catholic,
(I am the same, I jump from Catholic Church to Catholic Church seeking a good one!)
Sui juris is latin for self governing and (which I presume from the many posts on this forum) most of the Eastern Catholic Churches are not.
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Originally posted by The Roamin' Catholic:
Can someone explain the term sui iuris ?
I am a Latin Rite Catholic and sometimes some new terms confuse me.
My mother was Byzantine Rite. My grandfater was supposedly Orthoox for a time before becoming Byzantine Rite. Shlomo Roamin' Catholic, First, sui iuris means "autonomous". My Church, the Maronite Church, is a sui iuris Church. That means we govern ourselves. Also, our Churches are not rites. I hope that explains it for you. Poosh BaShlomo, Yuhannon
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We ahve just had a long thread on the topic of sui juris churches etc. It must have only just closed off so happy searching.
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Sorry I lied! It was just a bit further down the same list of topics. I am sure you will get plenty of info from there to answer your questions.
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The original Latin term meant "his own master" literally. In real, actual and honest terms of self-governing, this varies from church to church as some are more directly dependent on Rome than others.
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Hi, Can someone explain the term Sui Iuris ? Sui Iuris comes from Latin, and means "[his/her/its] own law". And applied to Catholic Churches, it means exactly that, that a particular Church has the right to write her own Canon Law, which needs to be in agreement with Divine Law and Church Tradition, but which doesn't have to follow the details of any other Sister Church's own Canon Law. The Catholic Church has provided the Eastern Churches Sui Iuris with a general framework, the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches, upon which they can buld their own particular Law. The Latin Church is, of course, also Sui Iuris, and that's why we have our own Code of Canon Law, which applies to us Latins, and only to us. Shalom, Memo
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On a related note, I recently found the following piece online concerning the BCA being granted the status of a sui iuris church: When the original center of the Ruthenian Catholic Church was under atheistic Communist rule and unable because of persecution to organize publicly, the impossibility of regular communication with it meant that the distant United States Metropolia, unable to be treated as a normal metropolia of an Eastern Rite Catholic Church (canons 133-139 of the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches), has been treated as a sui iuris (autonomous) Metropolitan Church (canons 155-173 of the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches). The Holy See's Annuario Pontificio has, however, always listed it not as a separate particular Church but as a Metropolia of the Ruthenian Church. If conditions continue to improve in the Ruthenian homeland, it is possible that the whole Ruthenian Church may be reorganized, perhaps as a Major Archiepiscopal Church, a rank long held by the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church and extended more recently, first to the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church and then, in 2005, to the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church and to the Romanian Church United with Rome, Greek-Catholic. (from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Catholic_Metropolitan_Church_of_Pittsburgh )
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I doubt if there would be any creation of a Major Archbishopric crossing the sea. The Malankara Major Archdiocese does not include all Malankara diocese in India. The malakara website makes this quiet clear that Major Archbishprics do not suddenly acquire international juristiction to rival that of the Pope. I have noted the way the UGCC website is clain claiming to have juristiction over other churches UGC's. Like the Polish Greek Catholics who are under the Primate of Poland. In Australia the Metropolitan Denis's (Arch. Melbourne) name is always omitted from the Liturgy unless he is present.
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