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"Divine Liturgy" is the normal word that, in their own languages, followers of
the Byzantine Rite apply to their Eucharistic services but, while in English the
same word (as also the word "Mass") is at times used to speak of the
corresponding services of the Oriental Orthodox Churches, the normal names
used in those Churches refers either to the aspect of offering/sacrifice
(Qurobo Alohoyo in the Syriac Orthodox Church), Badarak[11] in the Armenian
Apostolic Church, Prosfora[12] in the Coptic Orthodox Church) or of sanctifying
(Keddase in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church).[5]
The Oriental Orthodox Churches own a richness of different liturgies, which
are named after the anaphora included.
Coptic Liturgy
At present, the Coptic Orthodox Church and Coptic Catholic Church have
three Liturgies: