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What if a conclave elected an Eastern Catholic Cardinal as Pope?

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Would that present any kind of ecclesiastical conflict? I was looking at the list of Cardinals and was curious who the youngest one is, it's Cardinal Mykola Bychok from Australia who's a prelate in the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. Is there anything canonical that says someone from the Eastern Churches couldn't hold the See of Peter or would they simply go through the process of becoming biritual? Or could the head of the Latin (and also universal) Church in fact not be a Latin Catholic? I'm not familiar with that kind of issue in history so I wonder how an unprecedented issue like that would be addressed if it happened (assuming it is, in fact, unprecedented).

If there was nothing prohibiting it, that would be kind of fascinating to see. Like, would he wear the traditional Papal vestments of the west or would he wear the vestments of an Eastern patriarch?

EDIT: Just after posting this I found a thread on Reddit about this exact subject. The clearest answer was from someone training to be a canon lawyer, he said:

FIrst of all, any baptized catholic man can be (theoretically) elected. Surely, with probability near to certainty, pope is chosen from cardinals electors. If a catholic belonging to some of the eastern Churches sui iuris is elected, nothing happens to his own rite. By accepting of the canonical election, he becomes the supreme pontiff. Who, by definition, is also the patriarch of the Latin church. This, hwoever, doesn't imply any automatic transfer to or accommodation of the Latin Church / rite. It would just happen thaat an eastern catholic would ascend and hold the chair of St. Peter. Any specifics regarding vestments would be, of course, at complete discretion of the pope, since he exercises full supreme immediate proper power over the whole Church.This, of course, means, he could (as all the popes have been able to) celebrate in any catholic rite whenever and wherever he pleases so.
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It's very interesting indeed, but I doubt it would ever happen, since I think Eastern Catholics, although relatively small in number, tend to be much more conservative than their Latin counterparts. Eh?
 
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RileyG said:
It's very interesting indeed, but I doubt it would ever happen, since I think Eastern Catholics, although relatively small in number, tend to be much more conservative than their Latin counterparts. Eh?
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Yeah for that reason the Conclave would probably avoid electing one, but you never know what kind of Divine intervention could lead to a good Pope being elected. Even if the Conclave didn't intend it.
 
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Gnarwhal said:
Yeah for that reason the Conclave would probably avoid electing one, but you never know what kind of Divine intervention could lead to a good Pope being elected. Even if the Conclave didn't intend it.
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Amen!
 
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JimR-OCDS said:
I don't believe there is anything ecclesiastical prohibiting it. However, Church politics may play a larger role.
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I don’t think so, either.
 
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SeekFirst0 said:
If it did happen, perhaps it would improve Catholic and Eastern Orthodox relations even more.
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I don’t think so. Many Eastern Orthodox Christians don’t hold a very favorable view of Eastern Catholics. I dunno.
 
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JimR-OCDS said:
Don't confuse Eastern Orthodox with Eastern Catholics. Eastern Catholics are in union with Rome, not so
the Orthodox.
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Yes, I understand that. I realize the distinction. I just thought that they were a little closer to Eastern Catholics in how they do things than the Latin Rite. I talked to some Orthodox who thought that. Overall, Eastern Orthodox needs to submit to Rome and become Catholic. Catholicism is the fullness of Truth.
 
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JimR-OCDS said:
Don't confuse Eastern Orthodox with Eastern Catholics. Eastern Catholics are in union with Rome, not so
the Orthodox.
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Yeppers
 
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SeekFirst0 said:
Yes, I understand that. I realize the distinction. I just thought that they were a little closer to Eastern Catholics in how they do things than the Latin Rite. I talked to some Orthodox who thought that. Overall, Eastern Orthodox needs to submit to Rome and become Catholic. Catholicism is the fullness of Truth.
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I agree 100%. There are some Eastern Catholics who indeed calls themselves Orthodox in communion with Rome, but they are fully Catholic.
 
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