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Ancient Western Liturgy

Rito Gallicano

The Gallican Rite of the Catholic Church · Rito Gallicano della Chiesa Cattolica

Emblem of the Gallican Rite

The Church of the Gauls

An ancient Western liturgical inheritance

The Gallican Rite preserves a venerable expression of the Catholic and Apostolic faith rooted in the ancient Church of the Gauls. Within the United Roman-Ruthenian Church, its spiritual, ceremonial, and historical patrimony continues through worship, formation, sacred vesture, and the restoration of its received liturgical forms.

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Ecclesiastical place

Authority and continuity

English

Under the spiritual authority of the United Roman-Ruthenian Church and the temporal authority of the Crown of the Merovingian Dynasty.

Italiano

Sotto l’autorità spirituale della Chiesa Unita Romano-Rutena e l’autorità temporale della Corona della Dinastia Merovingia.

Español

Bajo la autoridad espiritual de la Iglesia Unida Romano-Rutena y la autoridad temporal de la Corona de la Dinastía Merovingia.

Documentary record

Leadership and ecclesiastical life

Don Rubén with the Archbishop of Lyon — H.R.H. Don Rubén, Head of the Merovingian Dynasty and Royal Protector of the Gallican Church, with the Archbishop of Lyon, Primate of the Gallican Rite.

Monsignor Rodrigues ordaining a Gallican priest — H.M.E.R. Monsignor Alejandro Rodrigues, Archbishop of Lyon and Primate of the Gallican Rite, ordains a Gallican priest.

Monsignor Alejandro Rodrigues coat of arms — Coat of arms of H.M.E.R. Monsignor Alejandro Rodrigues

Monsignor Alejandro Rodrigues — H.M.E.R. Monsignor Alejandro Rodrigues
Archbishop of Lyon and Primate of the Lower Gallican Rite

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Liturgy, vesture, and restoration

WorshipThe Gallican MassThe form and order of the Holy Mass in the Gallican tradition. Historical studySacred VestureA substantial Spanish-language study of Gallican liturgical clothing and its historical sources. Liturgical historyRestoration of the RiteThe French-language account of the sources and restoration of the ancient liturgy of the Gauls.