Latin liturgical rites used within that area of the Roman Catholic Church where the Latin language once dominated (the Latin Rite or Western Catholic Church) were for many centuries no less numerous than the liturgical rites of the Eastern autonomous particular Churches. Their number is now much reduced. In the aftermath of the Council of Trent, in 1568 and 1570 Pope Pius V suppressed the Breviaries and Missals that could not be shown to have an antiquity of at least two centuries (see Tridentine Mass and Roman Missal). Many that remained legitimate even after this decree were abandoned voluntarily, a process that continued into the second half of the twentieth century. A few persist today for the celebration of Mass, but the distinct liturgical rites for celebrating the other sacraments have been almost completely abandoned.

Liturgical rites currently in use within the Latin-Rite Catholic Church

• The Roman Rite is by far the most widely used. Like other liturgical rites, it developed over the centuries. The history of its Eucharistic liturgy is usually seen as divided into three periods: Pre-Tridentine Mass, Tridentine Mass, and Post-Tridentine Mass.
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    form of this rite (with relatively minor variations) during the four centuries from Pope Pius V's codification of the Breviary (1568) and the Roman Missal (1570) is by some called the "Tridentine Rite". See Tridentine Mass for the extent to which this form is still in use.
• The Carthusian rite is still in use in a reformed version; but the rites peculiar to some other religious orders (e.g. the Carmelites and the Dominicans) are now generally abandoned, apart from their continued use by a few members of these orders in virtue of the Ecclesia Dei indult. These rites were generally based on the kind of local territorial variants exemplified in the Gallican Rite and the Sarum Use (see below, "Defunct Catholic Western liturgical rites")
• The Ambrosian Rite is celebrated in most of the Archdiocese of Milan, Italy and in parts of some neighbouring dioceses in Italy and Switzerland. The language used in now usually Italian, rather than Latin. With some variant texts, it is similar in form to the Roman Rite.
• The Rite of Braga is used in the Diocese of Braga in Portugal.
• The Mozarabic Rite, once prevalent throughout Spain, is now celebrated mostly in limited locations, among them the cathedral of Toledo.
• The Anglican Use is a use of the Roman Rite, in English only, based on the Book of Common Prayer with the
  
  
  
  introduction of some Roman elements, used, in accordance with what the Pastoral Provision, by people of Anglican background in the United States who become Roman Catholic but retain elements of the Cramnerian liturgy.
• The Zaire Use is a variation of the Roman Rite used to a very limited extent in some African countries.

Defunct Catholic Western liturgical rites

• The African Rite used in Latin-speaking Roman North Africa prior to the Arab conquest (8th century). Practically no details are known of it except that, like the Ambrosian Rite, it was close in form to the Roman Rite.
• The ancient Celtic Rite was a composite of non-Roman ritual structures and texts not exempt from Roman influence that was similar to the Mozarabic Rite in many respects and would have been used at least in parts of Ireland and Northern Britain (including Scotland) and perhaps even Wales, Cornwall and Somerset, before being replaced by the Roman usage in the early Middle Ages. "Celtic" is possibly a misnomer and it may owe its origins to Augustine's re-evangelisation of the British Isles in the sixth century. Little is known of it, though several texts and liturgies survive. Some Christians (typically groups not in full communion with the Roman Catholic Church, including some in communion with Orthodox Christian Churches, e.g. Celtic Orthodoxy), have attempted to breathe life into a reconstruction of the Celtic Rite whose historical accuracy is debated. Historical evidence of this rite is found in the remnants of the Stowe (Lorrha) Missal.
• The Gallican Rite is a retrospective term applied to the sum of the local variants, on similar lines to that designated elsewhere as the Celtic Rite and the Mozarabic Rite, which faded from use in France by the end of the first millennium. It should not be confused with the so-called Neo-Gallican liturgical books published in various French dioceses after the Council of Trent, which had little or nothing to do with it.
• Several local rites (more properly, uses) of limited scope.
  • The Sarum Rite (more properly Sarum Use), a defunct variant on the Roman Rite originating in the Salisbury diocese, which had come to be widely practiced in England and Scotland by the time of the Protestant Reformation, alongside limited other variants such as the York Use.
  • The Lyonese Rite of the diocese of Lyons, France, now defunct, was once again a local variant of the Roman Rite, much as was the Sarum Use.
  • The Nidaros Use, long defunct, based mainly on imported English liturgical books, used in pre-Reformation Norway.