We dedicate this  page to our members, past and present, at home and abroad, and to members of our brother Societies of St. John Chrysostom around the world. We seek to preserve here and share with you, the reader, important information about ourselves - Orthodox Christians in communion with the See of Rome - and our Byzantine Christian Tradition, as well as about the Traditions of our sister churches of the East, with whom we currently share our facilities..

For those unfamiliar with Turkish, Syriac or Arabic, "Rum Katolik" does NOT mean "Roman Catholic" in the common English usage of that phrase. "Rum" is the Turkish for the Greek term "Romaioi", and Romaioi, which looks like the English word "Roman", would normally be accurately translated as "Byzantine", "East Roman" or "Romaioi" (to indicate the East Romans, the inhabitants of the East Roman Empire) in the context of the domains of the former Byzantine, or East Roman, Empire. The Empire in the East was the direct, organic, and only survivor of the Roman Empire of Augustus Caesar and this is reflected in part by the fact that the name Roman/Romaios continued in use from its establishment in 313 A.D. through to its political end in 1453 A.D.

Interior of Ayatriada Rum Katoliki Kilise, Istanbul

Hamalbasi cad. 44/46
Beyoglu, Istanbul

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