Demandatam

Demandatam caelitus humilitati is an encyclical of Pope Benedict XIV, and dated December 24, 1743rd In some sources this Apostolic Letter is also called the Apostolic Constitution. The subtitle of the encyclical states: "On the Melkite Greek Catholic Church ," the Pope Kyrillos VI is hereby turned on. Tanas and all the bishops of his jurisdiction. Thematically, it was about the preservation of the Byzantine rite in the Melkite Greek Catholic Church.

Historical review

In the first half of the 18th century, many liturgical rites were transferred from the Latin Rite to the Byzantine Rite of the Melkite Church. This was mainly from Euthymios Saifi and the Patriarch of Antioch Kyrillos VI. Tanas encouraged. Furthermore, these practices was supported by Franciscan missionaries in spite of the papal ban. This led to a split within the Melikischen Greek Catholic Church and a mixing of the two rites. Two papal letter from 1723 and 1729 resulted in no single solution, and before Benedict XIV on Kyrillos VI. Tanas gave the pallium he wrote this encyclical.

Arrangements

Benedict XIV said, the prohibition of any supplement, deletion or modification, is also characterized by the Patriarch of the Byzantine rite. He also forbade other nicknames from the Byzantine to the Latin rite. He ordered that all previously made ​​Mixformen were due to their original condition. For the territory of Damascus, where many use had been made of the two rites, he called for the clear separation of the two rites. The members of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church, he exhorted their religious rites to practice disciplined.