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The '''Byzantine Discalced Carmelites'''<ref>[http://www.byzantinediscalcedcarmelites.com/ Byzantine Discalced Carmelites]</ref> are communities of [[cloister]]ed nuns and [[friars]] (in Bulgaria only), belonging to several Eastern Catholic Churches – the [[Bulgarian Byzantine Catholic Church]], the [[Melkite Greek Catholic Church]], the [[Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church]], the [[Ordinariate for Eastern Catholics in France]] and the [[Romanian Greek Catholic Church]], living committed to a life of prayer, according to the [[hermit|eremitic tradition]] and lifestyle of the [[Discalced Carmelites]].

==Bulgaria==
Discalced Carmelite friars are resident in Bulgaria.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.karmil.tk/ |title=Discalced Carmel in Bulgaria |access-date=2021-07-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180204175120/https://karmil.tk/ |archive-date=2018-02-04 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Lebanon==
The Carmel of the Mother of God and Unity in [[Harissa, Lebanon]] was inaugurated on 24 August 1962<ref>[http://melkite.org/patriarchate/golden-jubilee-of-the-carmel-of-the-mother-of-god-and-unity "Golden Jubilee Of the Carmel of the Mother of God and Unity"]</ref> by Mgr Philip Nabaa (1907-1967), the Melkite Metropolitan Archbishop of Beirut and Byblos (1948-1967). Due to the many vocations a second Carmel was founded on 9 July 2005 in Kfarmasshoun, near [[Byblos]].<ref>[http://www.pgc-lb.org/fre/melkite_greek_catholic_church/Carmel-of-Theolokos-Harissa-Kfarmasshoun "Carmels de la Théolokos Harissa et Kfarmasshoun"]</ref> The Carmel of the Mother of God and Unity in Harissa was visited by [[Pope John Paul II]] on 11 May 1997<ref>[http://melkite.org/patriarchate/golden-jubilee-of-the-carmel-of-the-mother-of-god-and-unity "Golden Jubilee Of the Carmel of the Mother of God and Unity"]</ref> and by [[Pope Benedict XVI]] on 16 September 2012<ref>[http://www.carmelitaniscalzi.com/ampliar-noticia/benedict-xvi-visits-the-harissa-carmel "Benedict XVI visits the Harissa Carmel"]{{Dead link|date=June 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> during their apostolic trips to Lebanon.

==United States==
It was out of a desire for Christian reconciliation and inspired by [[Pope John XXIII]] and the [[Second Vatican Council]] that the Byzantine Carmel was brought to life. [[Annunciation|Holy Annunciation]] Carmel's founding sisters, Mother Marija of the [[Holy Spirit]], Sister Marie [[Helena of Constantinople|Helen of the Cross]] and Sister Ann of the [[Trinity]] (d. 2001) offered their lives for the healing of the [[Body of Christ]] with the inauguration of the [[monastery]] at [[Sugarloaf Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania|Sugarloaf, Pennsylvania]], on 23 February 1977.
The Most Reverend [[Michael Dudick]] (1916–2007), the [[bishop]] of the [[Ruthenia]]ns of [[Passaic, New Jersey]], assumed the total burden of financial responsibility and assisted the community for years.

Father [[Walter Ciszek]], S.J., both guided the sisters in the establishment of this new foundation and introduced the community to Bishop Michael.

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"[[Divine providence]] directed us to the Ruthenian people and their diocese of Passaic NJ, which stems from the [[Uzhgorod]]-[[Mukachevo]] eparchy in [[Carpathian Ruthenia|Transcarpathia]] (now [[Ukraine]]). At the time of founding Holy Annunciation, [[Communism]] was in full force and daily we prayed for "our suffering brethren" (behind the [[iron curtain]]). As Communism weakened and then collapsed (1989-1990) we received requests, even applications, from young women in Byzantine Slovakia and Carpathia who felt they had a Carmelite vocation. Several [[Byzantine rite]] girls came to us from [[Slovakia]] and [[Carpathian Ruthenia|Carpathia]]. We in turn promised, when feasible, that a foundation would be made in their homeland. This has been our endeavor since 1995, and in 2002 we sent Sisters there to begin the Monastery of St. Therese in Koritnyani, Transcarpathia." - Mother Marija
</blockquote>

In 1999, the community, through an unusual chain of events, accepted five young women of the [[South Indian]] [[Syro-Malabar Catholic Church]] as members. These sister comprise one third of the community. Bishop Dudick encouraged the assistance of sister [[Eastern Catholic Church]]es.

==France==
In 1964, the Second Vatican Council's Decree on Ecumenism received an enthusiastic welcome in the Carmel of Nancy; then, with the agreement of the community, the Prioress, Mother Elisabeth, considered founding an Eastern-rite Carmel. Little by little, the details of the project were worked out; it was encouraged by the Superiors of the Order and received Pope Paul VI's blessing. After friendly consultations with several representatives of the Orthodox Church in France, a statute approved by the Bishop allowed the Sisters who were committed to the project to pray the Byzantine-rite Office. In 1971, this "Eastern branch" transferred to the Carmel in Nogent- sur-Marne, close to Paris, enabling the Sisters to become better acquainted with Orthodox Christianity and to be trained in iconography.
With the authorisation of the Bishops of Nancy and Dijon, the Monastery of St. Elijah was founded in Saint Remy (Côte d'Or) in 1974 by four Carmelites from Nancy.<ref>[http://saintelie.perso.neuf.fr/history.html "History"]</ref>
In 1981, after the five year review of the project, the review commission authorized the opening of a novitiate. In 1986, the Monastery was established as a Carmel of the Byzantine Rite under the jurisdiction of the Ordinariate for Eastern Catholics in France, which delegates its authority to the Bishop of Dijon,<ref>[http://rumkatkilise.org/byzcarmel.htm "The Byzantine Catholic Carmelite Monastery of St Elias"]</ref> making it the fourth Byzantine-rite Carmel in existence, after Sofia (Bulgaria), Harissa (Lebanon) and Sugarloaf (Pennsylvania).<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.primitivecarmel.org/byzantine.html |title=Archived copy |access-date=2013-04-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131126065332/http://primitivecarmel.org/byzantine.html |archive-date=2013-11-26 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Romania==
In response to an invitation from the Greek Catholic Metropolitan in Romania, Mgr [[Lucian Muresan]], on 14 September 1994, the feast of the Triumph of the Cross, the Monastery of St. Elijah laid the foundations of a skete in Stânceni, a village set in the Carpathian Mountains. The Skete is dedicated to the Holy Cross which unites all Christians as they await the resurrection. Situated on the outskirts of a village whose inhabitants are Orthodox, Catholic or Protestant, it is a place of prayer for Unity.<ref>[http://saintelie.perso.neuf.fr/skete.html "A skete in Romania"]</ref>

==See also==
* [[Carmelites]]
* [[Carmelite Rule of St. Albert]]
* [[Book of the First Monks]]
* [[Constitutions of the Carmelite Order]]
* [[Jan Tyranowski]]
* [[Byzantine Catholic Eparchy of Passaic]]
* [[Melkite Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Beirut and Byblos]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://www.byzantinediscalcedcarmelites.com/ Official Website of the Discalced Carmelite Nuns of the Byzantine Catholic Church]
*[http://www.monasteresaintelie.com Saint Elijah Byzantine Carmelite Monastery, Saint Remy, France] (in French)
**[https://web.archive.org/web/20160509182135/http://rumkatkilise.org/byzcarmel.htm Byzantine Carmelite Monastery and Fraternity of St. Elie in Saint Remy, France] (defunct English website)
*[http://schitulstanceni.blogspot.ro Holy Cross Skete, Stânceni, Romania]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070713102022/http://www.carmelite-seremban.org/Spirituality/carmelite_calendar.html Discalced Carmelite Calendar and Saints]
* [http://www.hermitary.com/articles/mothers.html Desert Mothers of Europe]

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