These had set up Churches which retained Eastern liturgical practice and married clergy, but which were nevertheless in communion with the pope and accepted his jurisdiction and the Western use of Filioque (see p. 276). Such Churches have often been referred to as ‘Uniates’, though generally the Churches of Ruthenian or other Orthodox origin in communion with Rome now prefer to term themselves ‘Greek Catholics’, the name bestowed on them by the Habsburg Empress Maria Theresa in 1774, to stress their equality of status with Roman Catholicism.
