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MELCHITES (lit. Royalists, from Syriac melcha, a king)

This article appears in Volume V18, Page 92 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MEC-MIC
MELCHITES (lit. Royalists, from Syriac melcha, a king) , the name given in the 5th
century
  to those Christians who adhered to the creed supported by the authority of the
Byzantine
  emperor. The Melchites therefore are those who accept the decrees of
Ephesus
  and
Chalcedon
  as distinguished from the
Nestorians
  and Jacobite
Church
  (qq.v.). They follow the Orthodox Eastern
liturgy
 , ceremonial and calendar, but acknowledge the papal and doctrinal authority of Rome. They number about 8o,000, are found in Syria, Palestine and
Egypt
 , and are under the immediate
rule
  of the patriarch of Damascus and twelve bishops.


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