- a variation of Melkite.
Melchite
Americannoun
adjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of Melchite
C17: from Church Latin Melchīta, from Medieval Greek Melkhītēs, literally: royalist, from Syriac malkā king
Example Sentences
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Baouardy was a Melchite Greek Catholic who was born in a village near Nazareth in 1846.
From Washington Times ● May 17, 2015
"Liturgy must be an expression of something that is happening in the community," says the Rev. David Kirk, a Melchite Catholic priest who is founder of a unique interfaith center in Manhattan called Emmaus House.
From Time Magazine Archive
The case is highly sensitive because of the interest taken in it by the Vatican and the Beirut-based Melchite Patriarch Maximos V Hakim.
From Time Magazine Archive
As middleman he designated Ilarion Capucci, a Greek Melchite Catholic archbishop and longtime ally of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the midst of these Jacobite and Melchite controversies and riots, appeared before the city the armies of certain wild and unlettered Arab tribes.
From Alexandria and Her Schools; four lectures delivered at the Philosophical Institution, Edinburgh by Kingsley, Charles
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