UNIAT CHURCHES
After the Council of Chalcedon (451) the issue of monophysitism became a major issue for the Churches of the East.
By the 6th century, monophsysitism consolidated into three regional churches in the East.
The Copts and the Abyssinians, the Syrian Jacobites, and the Armenians.
The present day Copts under Pope Shenouda III now state they were not monophysitic that this was never the case. Their web site is at http://www.coptic.net/
After the Great Schism of 1054 and the issue of "the filioque" continued to divide the Church there were still some "Orthodox" Christians in the East who remained in communion with Rome.
Others joined back over the years. They became known as the Uniat Churches.
The Marionites (1182), Syrians under the Patriarch of Antioch (1930), Chaldeans (1551,1830) , Greek-Melkites (1724), Hungarians (1595) and the largest group being the Ukrainians.
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