I was surfing the net and stumbled across this site. At first I thought it was another Orthodox Forum.
What a sham! Where and when did this rite originate?
Are you trying to tell me that you have never heard of the
sui iuris Eastern-Rite Catholic Churches, many of which follow the Byzantine liturgical tradition? Also, on that particular forum, there did appear to be Orthodox members.
Then I opened a topics and discovered that they are pope venerators.
I venerate Popes too. St. Linus, St. Anacletus, St. Clement I, St. Evaristus, St. Alexander I, St. Sixtus I, St. Telesphorus, St. Hyginus, St. Pius I, St. Anicetus, St. Soter, St. Eleutherius, St. Victor I, St. Zephyrinus, St. Callistus I, St. Urban I, St. Pontain, St. Anterus, St. Fabian, St. Cornelius, St. Lucius, St. Stephen I, St. Sixtus II, St. Dionysius, St. Felix I, St. Eutychian, St. Caius, St. Marcellinus, St. Marcellus I, St. Eusebius, St. Miltiades, St. Sylvester I, St. Marcus, St. Julius I, St. Liberius, St. Damasus I, St. Siricius, St. Anastasius I, St. Innocent I, St. Zosimus, St. Boniface I, St. Celestine I, St. Sixtus III, St. Leo I, St. Hilarius, St. Simplicius, St. Felix III, St. Gelasius I, St. Anastasius II, St. Symmachus, St. Hormisdas, St. John I, St. Felix IV, St. Agapetus I, St. Silverius, St. Gregory I, St. Boniface IV, St. Deusdedit, St. Martin I, St. Eugene I, St. Vitalian, St. Agatho, St. Leo II, St. Benedict II, St. Sergius I, St. Gregory II, St. Gregory III, and St. Zachary.

Holy Orthodox Popes of Old Rome, pray to God for us!
(No I didn't forget all the saintly Popes and Patriarchs of Alexandria and All Africa, but my list was getting long.

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