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Has the Divine Liturgy been translated into Latin and if so does anyone know where one can find a copy? Thank you.

I don't know, but maybe by some Western Orthodox source.

I expect it's available somewhere. There's this: Sacra Congregatio Pro Ecclesia Orientali, Ordo Celebrationis Vesperarum, Matutini, et Divinae Liturgiae Iuxta Recensionem Ruthenorum. Editio Altera. Rome: Tipografia Pio X, 1953. Which has the how of the liturgy, but not the texts, as far as I can see.

Available online here. [patronagechurch.com]

That's just a collection of rubrics for the Divine Liturgy, Orthros and Vespers according to the Ruthenian recension. You can buy the English version translated by the late and deeply missed Fr. Serge Kelleher from Eastern Christian Publications. The Ruthenian Recension published by the Oriental Congregation beginning in 1942 is entirely in Slavonic. I have never seen a Latin edition of the text, whether from a Greek or a Slavonic source.

I can't vouch for the quality of the translation (purported to be by Erasmus of Rotterdam) but here is one source:

Divine Liturgy in Latin [web.archive.org]

Some may discern this part:

Et postea egreditur diaconus ex tribunali, et postquam ter adoravit, dicit alta voce:

Benedic, domine.

Sacerdos autem alta voce dicit:

Benedictum regnum Patris et Filii et Spiritus sancti, nunc et semper, et in sæcula sæculorum.

Chorus: Amen.

Diaconus alta voce: In pace Dominum precemur.

Chorus: Domine, miserere.

Diaconus: Pro superna pace et salute animarum nostrarum Dominum precemur.

Chorus: Domine, miserere.

Diaconus: Pro pace totius mundi, stabilitate sanctarum Dei Ecclesiarum, et pro omnium concordia Dominum precemur.

Chorus: Domine, miserere.

Diaconus: Pro hac sancta domo, et pro iis qui cum fide, pietate et timore Dei ingrediuntur in eam, Dominum precemur.

Chorus: Domine, miserere.

Diaconus: Pro Archiepiscopo nostro N., venerandis presbyteris, in Christo diaconis, universo clero et populo Dominum precemur.

Chorus: Domine, miserere.

Diaconus: Pro pissimis et a Deo custoditis Imperatoribus nostris, pro toto palatio et exercitu ipsorum, Dominum precemur.

Chorus: Domine, miserere.

Diaconus: Ut una cum illis bellum gerat, et subiiciat sub pedibus eorum omnem inimicum et hostem, Dominum precemur.

Chorus: Domine, miserere.

Diaconus: Pro Sancta hac mansione, tota urbe et regione, et iis qui cum fide in illis habitant, Dominum precemur.

Chorus: Domine, miserere.

Diaconus: Pro bona aeris temperie, et pro fructum terræ fertilitate, et pacificis temporibus Dominum precemur.

Chorus: Domine, miserere.

Diaconus: Pro navigantibus, iter agentibus, ægrotis, laborantibus, captivis, et pro salute ipsorum, Dominum precemur.

Chorus: Domine, miserere.

Diaconus: Ut liberemur ab omni afflictione, ira, periculo et necessitate, Dominum precemur.

Chorus: Domine, miserere.

Funny thing is that, in the old Latin Mass, they use Greek "Kyrie eleison" and not Latin.

I wonder if the Italo-Greek Catholic Church ever celebrated the liturgy in Latin?

Well, all Churches seem to have retained some fundamental Aramaic, including Amen, Alleluia, Sabaoth and Maranatha. It is not unusual to retain a word or phrase from an older tradition when that word either has great symbolic value or expresses something not quite convertible into another language.

Here's a Latin translation: Ordo Divini Sacrificii Sancti Patris Nostri Joannis Chrysostomi [books.google.com] in the Patrologia Graeca (P.G. 63, 901).

The first four bids have been part of most North American Lutheran Eucharistic liturgies since 1958. The remainder became part of the Lutheran Vesper service in 1978. Some of us use the expanded form seasonally--I will all through Advent.