Though the title " abbot " is not given in the Western Church to any but actual abbots of monasteries today, the title archimandrite is given to " monastics " ( i. e., celibate ) priests in the East, even when not attached to a monastery, as an honor for service, similar to the title of monsignor in the Western / Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church.

It is widely used by a number of Christian denominations for both liturgical and catechetical purposes, most visibly by liturgical Churches of Western tradition, including the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church, Lutheranism, Anglicanism, and Western Orthodoxy.

It is widely used by a number of Christian denominations for both liturgical and catechetical purposes, most visibly by liturgical Churches of Western Christian tradition, including the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church, Lutheranism, Anglicanism, and Western Orthodoxy.

The Apostles ' Creed is widely used by most Christian denominations for both liturgical and catechetical purposes, most visibly by liturgical Churches of Western tradition, including the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church, Lutheranism, the Anglican Communion, and Western Orthodoxy.

Mieszko chose to be baptized in the Western Latin Rite in 966.

Western Christianity is a term used to include the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church and groups historically derivative thereof, including the churches of the Anglican, Lutheran, Presbyterian, and other Protestant traditions that share common attributes that can be traced back to their medieval heritage.

In churches of the Western Rite the accompanying instrument is usually the organ, although in colonial America, the Moravian Church used groups of strings and winds.

In the 20th century, the diaconate was restored as a permanent order in many Western churches, most notably in the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church, the Anglican Communion, and The United Methodist Church.

Western Christian liturgical calendars are based on the cycle of the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church, including Lutheran, Anglican, and other Protestant calendars since this cycle pre-dates the Reformation.

" Mass " is one of the names by which the sacrament of the Eucharist is called in the Roman Catholic Church, Latin liturgical rites, Western Rite Orthodox Churches, as well as in similar celebrations in Old Catholic Churches, in some Anglican parishes, and in many Lutheran Churches.

Some have drawn parallels with the Eastern Catholic churches, but though there are some commonalities, Anglican ordinariates are intended to be part of the Western or Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church, as they had been before the breach with Rome following the reign of Mary I of England.

In the Latin or Western Rite of the Catholic Church, " first tonsure " was, in medieval times, and generally through 1972, the rite of inducting someone into the clergy and qualifying him for the civil benefits once enjoyed by clerics.

Apart from this general clerical tonsure, some Western Rite monastic orders, for example Carthusians and Trappists, employed a very full version of tonsure, shaving the head entirely bald and keeping only a narrow ring of short hair, sometimes called " the monastic crown " ( see " Roman tonsure ", above ), from the time of entrance into the monastic novitiate for all monks, whether destined for service as priests or brothers.

In the Roman Catholic Church ( and some Anglo-Catholic and Western Rite Orthodox churches ), the Passion story is depicted in the Stations of the Cross ( via crucis, also translated more literally as " Way of the Cross ").

In the Eastern Orthodox Church, the name for the holy day is, in the Byzantine Rite, " Great and Holy Thursday " or " Holy Thursday ", and in Western Rite Orthodoxy " Maundy Thursday ", " Holy Thursday " or both.

In the Western Rite, the subdeacon's role is essentially as an assistant to the deacon in performing his diaconal role.

In the Western Rite, the subdeacon is charged with reading the Epistle at a High Mass ( the most solemn and elaborate form of the western Eucharist )-a role that may be performed by a priest or reader at a simpler form of the Mass, and with assisting the deacon with the preparation of the oblations and with carrying them to the Altar, ( in those western rites that retain the Offertory Procession ).

( There is no distinction between an inner and outer cassock in the Western Rite, and all clergy wear one cassock only ).

Unlike his brother subdeacons in the Byzantine Rite who wear the orar, the Western Rite subdeacon does not wear its western equivalent-the stole-which is reserved for deacons, priests, and bishops.

Africans and Asians tend to consider not only missions but the local churches they have produced as centers and agents of Western culture and ideology if not of direct political propaganda.

In Western Christianity, this day is observed principally in the Catholic Church, although some churches of Anglican Communion and the Old Catholic Churches also celebrate it.

It may come from a custom in the late Roman / early Christian era, wherein metal boxes placed outside churches were used to collect special offerings tied to the Feast of Saint Stephen, which in the Western Church falls on the same day as Boxing Day.

Western cultures are thus said to be losing the spirit of community that once were found in institutions including churches and community centers.

During the 11th through 14th centuries, a wave of building of cathedrals and smaller parish churches occurred across Western Europe.

By the late Middle Ages these were a near-universal feature of Western churches, but are now very rare.

Even apart from documents drawn up jointly with other churches, it has sometimes, in view of the central position it attributes to the See of Rome, adopted the adjective " Roman " for the whole church, Eastern as well as Western, as in the papal encyclicals Divini illius Magistri and Humani generis.

Recent historic ecumenical efforts on the part of the Catholic Church have focused on healing the rupture between the Western (" Catholic ") and the Eastern (" Orthodox ") churches.

Roman Catholic and Protestant churches dominated the education system and the curricula reflected Christian and Western values.

Among the Oriental Orthodox some churches have changed from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar and the date for Easter as for other fixed and moveable feasts is the same as in the Western church.

The recommended World Council of Churches changes would have sidestepped the calendar issues and eliminated the difference in date between the Eastern and Western churches.

Several other ancient churches in Eastern Europe, Western Asia and North Africa also use Orthodox, but are distinct from the Orthodox Church as described in this article.

Filioque (), Latin for " and ( from ) the Son ", is a phrase found in the form of Nicene Creed in use in most of the Western Christian churches.

Together with papal primacy, differences over this doctrine have been and remain the primary causes of schism between the Western and Eastern Orthodox churches.

His contributions to Trinitarian theology are also influential and often cited in the Western churches.

Today Western Christianity follows the Syriac churches in keeping his feast on 17 October.

They included the Cathar and Albigensian churches of Western Europe.

The ones found in Europe and North America appear to have various styles but most are built on Western artchitectural designs, some are former churches or other buildings that were used by non-Muslims.

Within modern Israel, the Palestinian Territories and Jordan, there are churches and believers from many Christian denominations, including Oriental Orthodoxy, Anglican, Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholic ( Eastern and Western rites ), Protestant, and others.

Pope Gregory IX considered, but did not put into effect, the idea of extending this missal, as revised by the Franciscans, to the whole Western Church ; and in 1277 Pope Nicholas III ordered it to be accepted in all churches in the city of Rome.

# The Eastern and Western Christian churches calculate Pascha using two different calendars ( Julian and Gregorian, respectively ); hence in most years Easter is celebrated on a different date in the East and the West.

This proposed astronomical rule was rejected by all Orthodox churches and was never considered by any Western church.

It would have relied mainly on the co-operation of the Eastern Orthodox Church, since the date of Pascha ( Easter ) would change for them immediately ; whereas for the Western churches, the new system would not differ from that currently in use until 2019.

In hagiography Saint George is one of the most venerated saints in the Catholic ( Western and Eastern Rites ), Anglican, Eastern Orthodox, and the Oriental Orthodox churches.