Orientalium Ecclesiarum

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Orientalium Ecclesiarum, the Decree on the Catholic Churches of the Eastern Rite, is one of the Second Vatican Council's 16 magisterial documents. "Orientalium Ecclesiarum" is Latin for "of the Eastern Churches", and is taken from the first line of the decree. The decree recognizes the right of Eastern Catholics to keep their own distinct liturgical practices while remaining in full communion with the Holy See. The decree exhorts Eastern Catholics to "take steps to return to their ancestral traditions". This aspect of the decree was directed against Latinisation. One of the shortest conciliar documents, it was approved on 20 November 1964 by a vote of 2,054 in favour and 64 opposed, and was confirmed by a vote of 2,110 to 39 on 21 November 1964, the day on which it was promulgated by Pope Paul VI alongside Lumen gentium, the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, and the Council's decree Unitatis redintegratio, on Christian unity, and there is a "profound connection" between all three documents.