>Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church

>my shallow frame of reference prevents me from understanding things
Good job, OP

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>Spanish Austrian Netherlands

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>parthian empire
>Sassanid empire
>Greco Persian empire

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>Holy
>Roman
>Empire

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>Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen

>>2488047
t. buttmad Roman

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>>2488173
I thought you were joking. Holy shit it's real.

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>Greco Bactrian kingdom

>>2488203
how do you not know about the red baron?
the krauts even got a pizza named after him for christ sakes

>>2489807

Nothing strange about that. "Greek Catholic" is strange, but what else would you call a Greek kingdom in Bactria but "Greco-Bactrian"?

>>2489849
>"Greek Catholic" is strange
What else would you call a Greek branch of the Catholic Church?

>>2490169
Orthodoxy

>>2490169

"Catholic". The Polish branch isn't called "Polish Catholic", the Italian branch isn't "Italian Catholic", why would the Greek branch be anything but plain "Catholic"?

>>2490189
Because it retains Byzantine rites.

>>2488203
I don't get the joke.