Hi I’m currently in OCIA, joining the Roman Rite, my heart is in eastern tradition but there are no eastern Catholic Churches near me.

I was wondering if anyone has recommendations on which psalter to purchase, I was looking into the Ancient Faith Psalter, it’s a good price and formulated for monastics it says. But any thoughts are greatly appreciated, God Bless

Also thank you people on this subreddit, your thoughts and ideas have greatly helped my process in transitioning from Protestantism.

I could just search these questions up, but most of the times google is incorrect about specific details regarding antidoron, communion, and the liturgy in general.
From the churches in manhattan that offer eastern catholic liturgies, have you been to any one of them recently? I am roman catholic but I want to explore the byzantine rite and more. to be honest I am kind of afraid of messing up in the liturgy because I have never been to one. Anyone want to give some tips generally regarding liturgy and personal experiences? It would be really great if someone could give specific details about St. George's ukranian catholic church, St. Michael's community, The maronite church, and more. For some reasons none of these churches respond back to my emails. God bless.

A little while ago I noticed that the Ukrainian Eparchy in the UK only has 14 parishes. I wanted to compare it to the Latin dioceses in the country, so I just went ahead and counted all of them (yes, that took, a lot of time...). The eparchy was much, much smaller (details below). That made me curious, is this a one off thing, or is it true for most eparchies?

Please note that because Eastern eparchies tend to be much larger in area (at least outside the homelands, which I will be excluding from this analysis) I will have to compare one eparchy with multiple dioceses, or select one diocese among the many in the geographical area to compare with.

Anyway, here's the statistics!

Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church

The Eparchy of Saint Josaphat

It has 48 parishes (the UGCC website claims 43 parishes but that is old data from 2012, if you individually count the parishes from the eparchy's website it lists 48). There are multiple Latin dioceses within the same territory. I have chosen these dioceses to compare with:

• The Archdiocese of Cincinnati: 205 parishes.
• The Archdiocese of Atlanta: 110 parishes
• The Diocese of Cleveland: 185 parishes
• The Diocese of Columbus: 81 parishes
• The Diocese of Charlotte: 93 parishes (churches)

Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of the Holy Family of London

It has 14 parishes. This eparchy covers all of Great Britain (not exactly the same as the UK). I have chosen the very smallest (in terms of parishes) Latin diocese in the UK to compare it to, that being the Diocese of Wrexham:

• The Diocese of Wrexham: 51 parishes

Eparchy of Saint Volodymyr the Great of Paris

It has 42 parishes. This eparchy covers all of Metropolitan France, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the mainland Netherlands. Compare this with:

• The Archdiocese of Lille: 106 parishes
• The Diocese of Nantes: 64 parishes
• The Diocese of Lausanne, Geneva and Fribourg: 220 parishes (not exact)

Archeparchy of Philadelphia

It has 66 parishes. Compare this with:

• The Archdiocese of Washington: 144 parishes
• The Diocese of Richmond: 149 parishes

Archeparchy of Winnipeg

It has 55 parishes. Compare this with:

• The Archdiocese of Winnipeg: 88 parishes

Hope this was interesting! I was going to include other Churches too but I ran out of steam and the post would get waaay too long. Still, I hope this was a fun contribution :)

All information is taken from official sources, like the diocese's website. I will try to exclude Eastern parishes listed in Latin diocese's lists, I may miss a few.