The different rites in the Church tend to have been created around certain cultural traditions, and those cultures have given the rites their own unique characteristics. Attendance at a different rite fulfills the Sunday obligation. The Roman rite is by far the largest and most widely diffused in the world, but the Catholic Church is composed of 23 distinct Churches or rites. Attendance at a different rite fulfills the Sunday obligation. Catholic Dioceses in the World.

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THE OLD RITES. All the rites of the Catholic Church are of equal dignity and equally valid. A. Catholic and Schismatical.

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Catholic University of … A: Although some people think that the Catholic Church is equivalent to the Latin or Roman rite, this is a misconception.

All the rites of the Catholic Church are of equal dignity and equally valid. A liturgical rite depends on the particular church the bishop (or equivalent) belongs to.

However, these rites all recognize the supremacy of the pope, Scripture and Sacred Tradition.
—A complete table of the old rites with an account … The Catholic Church is truly universal since it unites so many diverse rites, whose members share a common faith.

Thus "particular church" refers to an institution, and "liturgical rite" to its practices.

These rites are generally formed in two categories: Eastern and Western churches. 1 New Catholic Encyclopedia. According to the Annuario Pontificio, Eastern Catholics number about 16.3 million.

A particular church (Latin: ecclesia particularis) is an ecclesiastical community of faithful headed by a bishop (or equivalent), as defined by Catholic canon law and ecclesiology. The Church defines it thusly: a rite is “the liturgical, theological, spiritual and disciplinary heritage, distinguished according to peoples’ culture and historical circumstances, that finds expression in each autonomous church’s way of living the faith.” (Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches, canon 28 §1) by Country: by Continent: by Type: by Name: by Rite: …