Catholic Liturgical Rites

The Catholic Church celebrates a number of different Liturgical Rites, a term that refers to a particular form of liturgy.Rites - Catholic Encyclopedia article
They are not to be confused with the Rites in the sense of sui iuris particular Churches, of which there are 22 Eastern and one Western.
Specific liturgical rites and uses are usually described in terms of the various Western (Latin) and Eastern (Greek, Syrian, Coptic etc.) traditions.
==Western (Latin) tradition==
Active:
*Roman Rite, whose historical forms are usually classified as follows
**Pre-Tridentine Mass (the various pre-1570 ordinary forms; now defunct) 
**Tridentine Mass (1570-1970: ordinary form, since 1970: extraordinary form)
**Mass of Paul VI (since 1970: ordinary form)
*Anglican Use (in the United States, formerly Anglican congregations)
*Ambrosian Rite (in Milan, Italy and neighbouring areas)
*Mozarabic Rite (in Toledo and Salamanca, Spain)
Defunct:
*Aquileian Rite (northeastern Italy)
*Durham Rite (Durham, England)
*Gallican Rite ('Gaul' i.e. France)
*Celtic Rite (British Isles)
*Sarum Rite (England)
*Use of York (England)
*Catholic Order Rites
** Benedictine Rite
** Carmelite Rite
** Cistercian Rite
** Dominican Rite
** Franciscan Rite
** Friars Minor Capuchin Rite
** Premonstratensian Rite
** Servite Rite
==Eastern liturgical rites==
*Alexandrian tradition
**Coptic Rite
**Ethiopic Rite
*Antiochian (Antiochene or West-Syrian) tradition
**Maronite Rite
**Syrian Rite
**Syro-Malankara Rite
*Armenian Rite
*Chaldean or East Syrian tradition:
**Chaldean Rite
**Syro-Malabar Rite
*Constantinopolitan tradition:
**Byzantine Rite: this rite, though used by 14 Eastern Catholic Churches (also known as Rites but instead referring to autonomous particular Churches) has preserved, apart from the diversity of languages uses, its uniformity and remained a single liturgical rite.
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