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Melchites are the people of Syria, Palestine, and Egypt who remained faithful to the Council of Chalcedon (451) when the greater part turned Monophysite. Melchite baptism, then is Catholic baptism although some of the ritual is different from the Latin Rite, the essentials are the same.

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