Since I came into Catholicism out of Eastern Orthodoxy, I am technically an Eastern Rite Catholic. I belong to the little known Serbian Rite. In Serbia, we have the Greek Catholic Apostolic Exarchate of Serbia, and I have been told that there is actually a Serbian Rite Church in New York City, but in the rest of North America, we are subject to Eparchs of other Rites. In the US, we are subject to the Eparchs of the Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church (in my case, the Eparch of Parma, Ohio) and in Canada to the Eparchs of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. When I lived in Edmonton, Alberta, I was subject to the Eparch of Edmonton, David Motiuk. Boy, can he sing! I heard him sing the Divine Liturgy once, and I've never forgotten it.
At any rate, here is the Chevalier discussing us and the situation we (and the Orthodox) are in.
It appears we will always have such divisions in this world.
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