[NYer]

This is one of the best descriptions and explanations I have ever read. Hope you find it informative as well.

[NYer]

Ping!

[GregB]

Bill O’Reilly should read this but he is too busy writing books about wayward priests.

[arthurus]

Succinct and useful for instruction. Thanks for your work.

[ThanhPhero]

This is an excellent outline.

[Ol' Sox]

Thank you! I am going to pass this on as supplemental material to the candidates in our RCIA class.

[steve86]

It is very good.

[JoeMac]

As a somewhat lapsed but still church-going Catholic(and I went to Catholic schools in the ‘60s) I’ve never had any use for the Vatican. Never needed it to know the miracle of faith , the love of Christ and the power of The Holy Spirit. Incidently the Vatican owes its existence to Benito Mussolini. He gave them their status as a state in exchange for making Catholicism the official religion of Italy.

[BlessedBeGod]

I've added what I understand to be the dates that each of the churches joined the Catholic Church:

Alexandrian liturgical tradition:
... Coptic Catholic Church (Egypt; patriarchate) ..(1741)
... Ethiopian Catholic Church (Ethiopia) ..(1846)

Antiochian liturgical tradition
... Maronite Church (Lebanon, diaspora; patriarchate)..(1182)
... Syriac (Syrian) Catholic Church ..(1781)
...... (Lebanon, Syria, diaspora; patriarchate)
... Syro-Malankara Catholic Church ..(1930)
...... (India; major archbishopric)

Armenian liturgical tradition
... Armenian Catholic Church..(1742)
...... (Armenia, diaspora; patriarchate)

Chaldean or East Syrian liturgical tradition
... Chaldean Catholic Church (Iraq, diaspora; patriarchate) ..(1692)
... Syro-Malabar Church (India; major archbishopric) ..(1599)

Byzantine (Constantinopolitan) liturgical tradition
... Albanian Greek Catholic Church (Albania)..(1628)
... Belarusian Greek Catholic Church (Belarus) ..(1596)
... Bulgarian Greek Catholic Church (Bulgaria) ..(1861)
... Byzantine Church of the Eparchy of Krizevci ..(1611)
...... (Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro)
... Greek Byzantine Catholic Church (Greece, Turkey) ..(1829)
... Hungarian Greek Catholic Church (Hungary) ..(1646)
... Italo-Albanian Catholic Church (Italy) ..(same as Roman)
... Macedonian Greek Catholic Church (Macedonia) ..(1918)
... Melkite Greek Catholic Church ..(1726)
...... (Syria, diaspora; patriarchate)
... Romanian Church United with Rome ..(1697)
...... (Romania; major archbishopric)
... Russian Catholic Church (Russia, China) ..(1905)
... Ruthenian Catholic Church (Ukraine, diaspora) ..(1646)
... Slovak Greek Catholic Church (Slovakia, Canada)..(1646)
... Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church ..(1595)
...... (Ukraine, diaspora; major archbishopric)