melkite in English
noun
1
an Orthodox or Uniate Christian belonging to the patriarchate of Antioch, Jerusalem, or Alexandria.
The recent attempt at reunification between the Catholic Melkite and the Orthodox in the Antiochean church took their common heritage as the basis of a projected merger.
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1. The Aramaean people also consist of the Syriac Orthodox, Syriac Catholic, Chaldean, "Nestorian" and Melkite churches, he noted in a speech before the United Nations in Geneva last year