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We are united although so much divides us. In those days, so depressing and hard for Polish nation, we said Goodbye to our Father – John Paul II called The Great, the unity is vivid. It was him who used to show us how to perceive the others, how to unite those which cannot be united – he visited mosque, synagogue, lowered his head in front of the Wall of Grief and prayed in the Orthodox Church. |
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Catholic Church -
c– Christian community recognizing the doctrinal and organizational authority of
the Bishop of Rome; keeping the unity in the issues concerning Faith and
Church discipline. |
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- Roman Catholic Church (West, Lati n ritual) |
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- Eastern Churches |
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In 1990 the Pope John Paul II divided those churches into: |
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1. patriarchal: |
- chaldean - Armenian - Coptic - Syrian - Maronian - Melchian |
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2. greater archbishop’s: |
- ‘syromalabarski’ (from
16.12.1992) - ‘syromalankarski’ (from 10.02.2005) - ukrainian – byzantium (Greek- Catholic) – (from 23.12.1963) |
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3. metropolitan |
- Ethopian - Romanian - Russian |
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4. other: |
- Albanian - Belorussian (without hierarchy) - Greek - Bulgarian - Russian (without hierarchy) - Hungarian - Italian-Albanian |