A Church sui iuiris is a distinct community of faithful within a rite of the Church. For example, there are 22 eastern Churches sui iuris, made up of two Alexandrian, three Antiochene, one ...

The Catholic Encyclopedia describes the situation ... the Pope is shepherd of the rites of the West and the East. The eastern rites which have a separate code of canon law, are completely equal ...

The Eastern rite Syro-Malabar Church Public Affairs Commission, in a March 12 statement, demanded a “high-level investigation ...