Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of an Eastern Catholic church that uses Greek liturgy.
- noun A member of the Eastern Orthodox Church.
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- noun a member of the Greek Orthodox Church
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What is known beyond a doubt is that the funeral in Bab Touma in the Damascus Christian quarter turned into an anti Assad demonstration, attended by the Greek Catholic Patriarch, clearly an unprecedented move by the clergy.
Dr. Josef Olmert: Assad and Gaddafi: The Not So Odd Couple Dr. Josef Olmert 2011
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The "Decision" provided for the "mobilization" of the communist parties of Lithuania, Latvia, Ukraine, and Byelorussia (Soviet republics with significant Roman and Greek Catholic populations) and of Tass, Soviet state television, the Academy of Sciences, "and other organizations ... of the Soviet State" to launch "propaganda against the policies of the Vatican."
Papal Secrets 2008
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Roman Catholic 68. 9\%, Protestant 10. 8\%, Greek Catholic
The 2007 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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Roman Catholic 68. 9\%, Protestant 10. 8\%, Greek Catholic 4. 1\%, other or unspecified 3. 2\%, none 13\% (2001 census)
The 2005 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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Roman Catholic 68. 9\%, Protestant 10. 8\%, Greek Catholic
The 2005 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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Roman Catholic 51. 9\%, Calvinist 15. 9\%, Lutheran 3\%, Greek Catholic
The 2007 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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There were three different branches of the church amongst these people, the Roman and Greek Catholic and the Orthodox Russian or
Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police R.G. MacBeth
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Roman Catholic 51. 9\%, Calvinist 15. 9\%, Lutheran 3\%, Greek Catholic
The 2005 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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Greek Catholic bishop; the former has authority over the Armenians throughout the whole country.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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Roman Catholic 68. 9\%, Protestant 10. 8\%, Greek Catholic 4. 1\%, other or unspecified 3. 2\%, none 13\% (2001 census)
The 2007 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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