拉丁礼教会

拉丁礼教会（英语：Latin Church）或称西方教会，是天主教会内最大的个别教会，一般来说，除了少数东方礼教会信众（约占天主教徒总数1%，分属22个东方礼自治教会）外，绝大部分天主教徒一般都属于拉丁礼教会。拉丁礼教会不是在个别教会中的地方个别教会层面内，即教区或东方礼教区。

历史

拉丁礼教会最初发展是在罗马帝国行省阿非利加（即现今的突尼斯北部及利比亚西部）。^[1]在这之后，教会渐渐传到罗马帝国中的西罗马帝国。

自西罗马帝国起，从古典时代至文艺复兴时期，拉丁礼教会使用的教会语言：拉丁语成为了教育和文化的主要语言。在该领域发展出各种拉丁礼拜仪式。

术语

教会及礼仪

在1990年定立的《东仪天主教会法典》中，“教会”和“礼仪”有以下意思：

教会：A group of Christian faithful united by a hierarchy according to the norm of law which the supreme authority of the Church expressly or tacitly recognizes as sui iuris is called in this Code a Church sui iuris.^[2]

礼仪：A rite is the liturgical, theological, spiritual and disciplinary patrimony, culture and circumstances of history of a distinct people, by which its own manner of living the faith is manifested in each Church sui iuris.^[3]

拉丁礼天主教和罗马天主教

有时，圣座也使用术语“罗马天主教”来指整个天主教会是在与罗马主教及的共融之中^[4][5]。但是，圣座从来没有使用“罗马天主教”这术语，来专指拉丁礼教会。圣座相当普遍使用的术语“罗马”是指罗马教区。

参考文献

1. Isidore of Seville (p. 17). [2014-03-18]. （原始内容存档于2014-12-25）.
2. CCEO, canon 27. [2014-03-18]. （原始内容存档于2011-06-04）.
3. CCEO, canon 28 §1
4. "The terms 'Roman Church' and 'Roman Catholic Church' date from at least the early Middle Ages, but the stress on these terms became prominent after the Protestant Reformation. The reason was to emphasize the distinctive quality of being not only a Christian, because baptized, but of being a Catholic, because in communion with the Pope " (（[//web.archive.org/web/20210313064755/http://www.catholicreference.net/index.cfm?id=36128 页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆） John Hardon, Modern Catholic Dictionary).
5. Pope Pius XII taught in Humani Generis that "the Mystical Body of Christ and the Roman Catholic Church are one and the same thing" (Encyclical Humani Generis （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）, 27).] Pope Benedict XVI called the Church "the Roman Catholic Church" at a meeting in Warsaw on 25 May 2006 （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆） and in joint declarations that he signed with the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, on 23 November 2006 （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆） and with Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople on 30 November 2006. （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）

外部链接

• Catholic Encyclopedia: Latin Church （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）

参见

• 基督教主题
• 天主教主题

• 天主教会
  • 个别教会
  • 东仪天主教会
• 天主教礼仪
• 西方基督教