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The Byzantine Rite, sometimes called '''Constantinopolitan''', is the Liturgical Rite used (in various languages) by all the Eastern Orthodox Church es and by several Eastern Catholic Churches . It originated in the city of Constantinople (now Istanbul), which had earlier been called Byzantium . This tradition has four forms of the , that of St. John Chrysostom , that of St. James and that of the Presanctified . That of St. John Chrysostom is the one commonly said throughout the year; that of St. Basil is said on all Sundays in Lent except Palm Sunday, on Holy Thursday, on the Vigils of Easter, Christmas and Epiphany, and on the feast of St. Basil. The Liturgy of the Presanctified is said during Lent on the first five weekdays of each week. It is an office with a Communion but no Consecration, the five Holy Loaves necessary for the purpose (one for each day) having been consecrated on the previous Sunday. The Liturgy of St. James is rarely said, and then primarily on December 26 , the day the Church commemorates this saint. LIST OF EASTERN ORTHODOX CHURCHES OF BYZANTINE LITURGICAL TRADITION ECUMENICAL PATRIARCHATE-ORTHODOX LINKS
LIST OF CATHOLIC PARTICULAR CHURCHES OF BYZANTINE LITURGICAL TRADITION
Note: Georgian Byzantine-Rite Catholics are not recognized as a Particular Church (cf. canon 27 of the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches). BOOKS
SEE ALSO (EASTERN LITURGICAL RITES, OTHER THAN THE BYZANTINE) SOURCES AND REFERENCES EXTERNAL LINKS
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