Talk:Macedonian Greek Catholic Church

Church sui iuris
"The Macedonian Catholic Church, called the Macedonian Byzantine Catholic Church, is a Byzantine Rite sui juris particular church" is inaccurate. There is, at least as yet, no such ecclesial entity. The Apostolic Exarchate for Macedonian Catholics of the Byzantine Rite is of the Croatian Greek-Catholic Church (aka Byzantine Catholic Church of the FROY, aka Eparchy of Kriveczi), just as is the Apostolic Exarchate for Serbian & Montenegron Catholics of the Byzantine Rite. The article itself, insofar as it merits retention to acknowledge the existence of a distinct constituent ethnic body of faithful within that Church, should be retitled "Macedonian Greek-Catholics" or "Greek-Catholics in Macedonia" - whichever better suits conventions.Irish Melkite (talk) 09:26, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
 * While you would have been right in 2008 and it does seem strange to list some of these churches as sui juris when they don't have any bishops or eparchies of its own, apparently just publishing its stats seperately creates a sui juris church. The Annuario Pontificio stats now list them seperately: "* The Annuario Pontificio now lists the Apostolic Exarchate of Macedonia separately from the other two jurisdictions, which are included under 'Byzantines of the Eparchy of Križevci.'" Spshu (talk) 21:17, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
 * "The Macedonian Catholic Church, called the Macedonian Byzantine Catholic Church, is a Byzantine Rite sui juris Eastern Catholic Church" is an inaccurate statement. The "Macedonian Catholic Church" would typically refer to the Latin Church in Macedonia - represented by the Diocese of Skopje. I've corrected the sentence. I also corrected the name in the InfoBox Irish Melkite (talk) 10:26, 16 August 2012 (UTC)

Greek Catholic vs Greek-Catholic
This issue has implications beyond this particular article. The usage "Greek Catholic" should be rendered "Greek-Catholic". Such is the common practice and is intended to convey the concept that the described ecclesia adheres to the "Greek" praxis, rather than being ethnically Greek. The sole exception to that is the Greek Byzantine Catholic Church or Byzantine Greek Catholic Church - for the obvious reason that its faithful are ethnically Greek.Irish Melkite (talk) 09:26, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Exarch names
Re the editing back and forth on this article (edit summaries)-. The exarches' names spelling are sourced from English language source and you have not pointed out any other English source for your spelling. Bulgarian law doesn't apply in the USA nor Macedonia nor on the internet. You must use sources on Wikipedia and not expect people to be professional translator for the Bulgarian or any other language. Google translate doesn't do a good job either. You can also list alternative spelling in the persons' article. Spshu (talk) 14:50, 20 January 2012 (UTC)

This is the standard way of transliteration of nearly all Bulgarian names translated in English Wikipedia. Do not worry, please. Regards. Jingiby (talk) 14:56, 20 January 2012 (UTC)

History
The paragraph presently indicates that the Apostolic Exarchate was separated from the Kriveci jurisdiction in 2010. That is inaccurate. A footnote to the 2008 AP statistics reported at CNEWA indicate that the separation occurred in 2008. I've corrected the year. Irish Melkite (talk) 10:11, 16 August 2012 (UTC)

Article title
In Macedonia it is officially called as Apostolic Exarchate of Macedonia. I believe this name is used by Vatican as well. Should we rename the article to Apostolic Exarchate of Macedonia or Macedonian Byzantine Catholic Church? It is more appropriate to use Byzantine than Greek (most articles use Byzantine).--MacedonianBoy (talk) 20:45, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

Gheck here: Greek Catholic Church. Thank you. Jingiby (talk) 06:14, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

Catholic Church naming conventions RfC
There is currently an RfC at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (Catholic Church) that may be of interest. Chicbyaccident (talk) 09:50, 4 October 2017 (UTC)