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 eastern rites which have a separate code of canon ... All the rites of the Catholic Church are of equal dignity and equally valid. Attendance at a different rite fulfills the Sunday obligation.

A body of Catholic religious men and women has appealed to the Synod of Bishops of the India-based Eastern rite Syro-Malabar Church to settle the decades-old liturgy dispute over the rubrics of Mass.