NOUN
- an eastern Christian in Egypt or Syria who adheres to the Orthodox faith as defined by the council of Chalcedon in 451 and as accepted by the Byzantine emperor
- an Orthodox Christian or Uniate Christian belonging to the patriarchate of Alexandria or Antioch or Jerusalem
How To Use Melchite In A Sentence
- Maybe I'll tell you about all the prayers, and the psychic chiropractor, and the herbs, and the cascaria bath prescribed by my friend the Yoruba priestess, and the miraculous appearance of a Melchite abbot just when I'd been praying to see him. Life Goes On
- They are more likely to speak of themselves as rumi kathuliki or in French Grecs catholiques; but the name Melchite, if used at all, always means to Eastern people these Catholics. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
- Last night on The World Over on EWTN with Raymond Arroyo was a Melchite Archbishop who said 95% of the Muslims in Lebanon are good and peaceful and live amicably with Christians, it is the radical Hezbollah, the minority, who use sayings from the Koran to incite violence. Neo-Nazi influences in radical Islam
- Melchite metropolitan resides at Iabroud; he has jurisdiction over The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
- A titular see of Phœ; nicia Secunda, suffragan of Damascus, and the seat of two Uniat archdioceses (Greek Melchite and Syrian). The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
- From his time the Monophysite party gained ground very quickly among the native population, so that soon it became an expression of their national feeling against the Imperial (Melchite, or Melkite) garrison and government officials. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
- [113] The commander of the faithful rejected with firmness the idea of pillage, and directed his lieutenant to reserve the wealth and revenue of Alexandria for the public service and the propagation of the faith: the inhabitants were numbered; a tribute was imposed, the zeal and resentment of the Jacobites were curbed, and the Melchites who submitted to the Arabian yoke were indulged in the obscure but tranquil exercise of their worship. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5
- At the present time (1909) there are altogether fourteen Melchite churches or congregations in the United States and just across the border in The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
- A Melchite patriarch of that see in the seventh century, and one of the authors of Monothelism; d. about 641. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
- There is the Greek Liturgy of St. Mark, the oldest form of the three, used for some centuries after the Monophysite schism by the orthodox Melchites; there are then three liturgies, still used by the Copts, translated into Coptic from the Greek and derived from the Greek St. Mark, and, further, a number of Abyssinian (Ethiopic) uses, of which the foundation is the The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize