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The Melkite Greek Catholic Church ((アラビア語:كنيسة الروم الملكيين الكاثوليك), ') is an Eastern Catholic Church in full communion with the Holy See as part of the worldwide Catholic Church. The Melkites, Byzantine Rite Catholics of mixed Eastern Mediterranean (Levantine) and Greek origin, trace their history to the early Christians of Antioch, formerly part of Syria and now in Turkey, of the 1st century AD, where Christianity was introduced by Saint Peter. It is headed by Patriarch Gregory III Laham. The Melkite Church has a high degree of ethnic homogeneity, and the church's origins lie in the Near East,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Church History )〕 centered especially in Syria and Lebanon. Melkite Greek Catholics are present, however, throughout the world due to migration. Outside of the Near East, the Melkite Church has also grown through intermarriage with, and the conversion of, people of various ethnic heritages. At present there is a worldwide membership of approximately 1.6 million.〔〔 The Melkite Catholic Church's Byzantine roots and liturgical practices are rooted in those of Eastern Orthodoxy, while the Church has maintained communion with the Catholic Church in Rome since its reaffirmation of its union with Rome in 1724.〔 ==Name of the Church== (詳細はSyriac word ''malkā'' for "King" and the Arabic word ''Malakī'' ((アラビア語:ملكي), meaning "royal", and by extension, "imperial"),〔 was originally a pejorative term for Middle Eastern Christians who accepted the authority of the Council of Chalcedon (451) and the Byzantine Emperor, a term applied to them by non-Chalcedonians.〔Dick (2004), p. 9〕 Of the Chalcedonian churches, Greek Catholics continue to use the term, while Eastern Orthodox do not. The ''Greek'' element signifies the Byzantine Rite heritage of the church, the liturgy used by all the Eastern Orthodox Churches.〔Faulk (2007), p. 5.〕 The term ''Catholic'' acknowledges communion with the Church of Rome and implies participation in the universal Christian church. According to Church tradition, the Melkite Church of Antioch is the "oldest continuous Christian community in the world".〔(【引用サイトリンク】author=Martha Liles )〕 In Arabic, the official language of the church,〔 it is called ''ar-Rūm al-Kathūlīk'' ((アラビア語:الروم الكاثوليك)). The Arabic word "Rūm" means Greek from the Greek word "Romioi" by which the Byzantine Greeks identified themselves, deriving from the name of their land which they called Romania (meaning "the land of the Romans", Greek: Ρωμανία). The name literally means "Roman Catholic", but this refers to the Byzantine Greek heritage associated with the city of "New Rome" (Latin: Nova Roma Greek: Νέα Ρώμη), i.e. Constantinople. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Melkite Greek Catholic Church」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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