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ARMENIAN RITE

Used by the Armenian Church, it is substantially the Greek Liturgy of St. Basil (329-79). It includes some elements of the Antiochene Rite, and originally used the Syriac language, but now the Armenian. Both Catholic and dissident Oriental Christians follow this rite.