拉丁禮教會

拉丁禮教會（英語：Latin Church）或稱西方教會，是天主教會內最大的個別教會，一般來說，除了少數東方禮教會信眾（約佔天主教徒總數1%，分屬23個東方禮自治教會）外，絕大部分天主教徒一般都屬於拉丁禮教會。拉丁禮教會不是在個別教會中的地方個別教會層面內，即教區或東方禮教區。

歷史

拉丁禮教會最初發展是在羅馬帝國行省阿非利加（即現今的突尼西亞北部及利比亞西部）。^[1]在這之後，教會漸漸傳到羅馬帝國中的西羅馬帝國。

自西羅馬帝國起，從古典時代至文藝復興時期，拉丁禮教會使用的教會語言：拉丁語成為了教育和文化的主要語言。在該領域發展出各種拉丁禮拜儀式。

術語

教會及禮儀

在1990年定立的《東儀天主教會法典》中，“教會”和“禮儀”有以下意思：

教會：A group of Christian faithful united by a hierarchy according to the norm of law which the supreme authority of the Church expressly or tacitly recognizes as sui iuris is called in this Code a Church sui iuris.^[2]

禮儀：A rite is the liturgical, theological, spiritual and disciplinary patrimony, culture and circumstances of history of a distinct people, by which its own manner of living the faith is manifested in each Church sui iuris.^[3]

拉丁禮天主教和羅馬天主教

有時，聖座也使用術語“羅馬天主教”來指整個天主教會是在與羅馬主教及的共融之中^[4]^[5]。但是，聖座從來沒有使用“羅馬天主教”這術語，來專指拉丁禮教會。聖座相當普遍使用的術語“羅馬”是指羅馬教區。

参考文献

^ Isidore of Seville (p. 17). [2014-03-18]. （原始内容存档于2014-12-25）.
^ CCEO, canon 27. [2014-03-18]. （原始内容存档于2011-06-04）.
^ CCEO, canon 28 §1
^ "The terms 'Roman Church' and 'Roman Catholic Church' date from at least the early Middle Ages, but the stress on these terms became prominent after the Protestant Reformation. The reason was to emphasize the distinctive quality of being not only a Christian, because baptized, but of being a Catholic, because in communion with the Pope " (（[//web.archive.org/web/20210313064755/http://www.catholicreference.net/index.cfm?id=36128 页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆） John Hardon, Modern Catholic Dictionary).
^ Pope Pius XII taught in Humani Generis that "the Mystical Body of Christ and the Roman Catholic Church are one and the same thing" (Encyclical Humani Generis （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）, 27).] Pope Benedict XVI called the Church "the Roman Catholic Church" at a meeting in Warsaw on 25 May 2006 （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆） and in joint declarations that he signed with the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, on 23 November 2006 （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆） and with Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople on 30 November 2006. （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）