The table below shows the Catholic Church in its various traditions from which the particular churches have developed. Everyone can trace the origin of his or her particular traditions by relating it to one of these listed Rites.
WEST EAST EAST EAST EAST
ROME ANTIOCH ARMENIA ALEXANDRIA CONSTANTINOPLE
Rome East Syriac
Chaldean
Malabar

West Syriac
Maronite
Syriac
Malankar

 Armenian Coptic
Ethiopian		 Albanian
Belorussian
Bulgarian
Georgian
Greek
Greek-Melkite
Hungarian
Italo-Albanian
Krizevci (Croatia)
Romanian
Russian
Ruthenian
Slovak
Ukranian
The traditions of the Catholic Church both East and West and their respective Churches
These autonomous Churches developed their own style of worship, spirituality, liturgy, theology, music, art and other types of disciplines stemming from location, ethnicity, culture and language. Although they are self-governed, they belong to different types of hierarchical discipline. Some are Patriarchal, others Archiepiscopal and still others Metropolitan. For example: the Maronite Church would be categorized as Eastern, Patriarchal and Antiochene.

The Maronite Church is the only Eastern Church which neither parted from the unity of the Church of Rome nor had an Eastern Orthodox counterpart. It is worth mentioning that this Church had maintained Aramaic, the language of our Lord, to this day. At a Maronite Divine Liturgy, anywhere around the globe, one can still hear the Institution Narrative (the words of consecration) in Aramaic, the same language Our Lord used and the same words He pronounced at that Last Supper.
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