Eastern Catholicism

Proper noun

Eastern Catholicism

1. The faith, practices, etc. of the Eastern Catholic Churches.
   • No clergy in the world were more tolerant than those of Russia, but this was naturally more than they could support when added to the wavering faith of the Empress-mother, whose family were Romanists; and they appealed to the Emperor, as the head and sworn protector of orthodoxy, to check the...1875, C. Joyneville [pseudonym; Catherine Laura Johnstone], “1815–1818. Russia at Peace. Ætat. 37–40.”, in Life and Times of Alexander I., Emperor of All the Russias. […], volume III, London: Tinsley...
   • He [Czesław Miłosz] lovingly recalls what Polish culture owes to Latin and the cultural unity with the West inspired by the Catholic Church; Russia would have escaped its cultural isolation if it had drawn its faith from Byzantium's Eastern Catholicism.1983 May 1, Alfred Kazin, “Writing out of the Polish Agony”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC