ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an overview of efforts to find a place for Western rites within Orthodox jurisdictions. It is based primarily on the study of written material, but also on observations during visits to some Western rite Orthodox parishes in Europe and North America as well as written exchanges with people active in such parishes. There are currently two Orthodox jurisdictions having Western rite parishes: the Antiochian Orthodox Church and the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR); moreover, a few parishes under the Serbian and Romanian Orthodox Churches occasionally use Western rites, beside the Byzantine one. The members of the Brotherhood of St Photios were among those Russians who felt that there should be some providential purpose behind the events that forced some many people to leave their country, and that the Russian emigration was meant to bring something to the Western world.
