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Midway up the Golden Horn in the Phanar, just outside the Greek Orthodox Cathedral of St. George, a Uniate Catholic priest discusses ecclesiastical protocol with an acolyte of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Bartholomew I, before an audience. The Eastern Rite Uniate Churches are communities of Eastern Christians in union with the Roman Catholic Church. The largest Eastern Rite Church, the Ukrainian Catholic Church of which the priest pictured on the right is a member, was formed when Ukrainian subjects of the King of Poland were united with Rome in 1596. All the Eastern Rite Churches retained their own distinctive spiritual, liturgical and canonical traditions, among them that of married clergy.