Since Catholicism and Orthodoxy have numerous "rites" that reflect a historical/cultural identity...

Not in Catholicism.

Since the beginning of the Church, the Latin Rite (Roman) Catholic Church has been the most influencial in Jerusalem.

Actually there are over 20 different Catholic Churches that make up the worldwide Catholic Church.

In addition to the Latin Rite (Roman) Catholic Church, the Eastern Rite Catholic Churches are in full communion with the Pope, and are part of the same worldwide Catholic Church.

Eastern Rite Catholic Churches include:

Alexandrian liturgical tradition

• Coptic Catholic Church

• Ethiopic Catholic Church

Antiochian (Antiochene or West-Syrian) liturgical tradition

• Maronite Church

• Syrian Catholic Church

• Syro-Malankara Catholic Church

Armenian liturgical tradition:

• Armenian Catholic Church

Chaldean or East Syrian liturgical tradition:

• Chaldean Catholic Church

• Syro-Malabar Church

Byzantine (Constantinopolitan) liturgical tradition:

http://www.byzcath.org/index.php?option=com_conten...

• Albanian Byzantine Catholic Church

• Belarusian Greek Catholic Church

• Bulgarian Greek Catholic Church

• Byzantine Church of the Eparchy of Križevci

• Greek Byzantine Catholic Church

• Hungarian Greek Catholic Church

• Italo-Albanian Catholic Church

• Macedonian Greek Catholic Church

• Melkite Greek Catholic Church

• Romanian Church

• Russian Byzantine Catholic Church

• Ruthenian Catholic Church

• Slovak Greek Catholic Church

• Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13121a.htm

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08364a.htm

With love in Christ.

All religions have "rites". To iniciate one into the belief and congregation, coming of age, moving up in the hierarchy of that religion, also religious observances, traditional repeated prayers, altar modifications, ect. It depends on what specific rites are you looking for. Even Buhddists, Taoists, Deists, Pagans, Wiccans, all other religions also have rites. Tradition is a big part of any and every belief. Rites show reverence to their deity and to the belief itself. Rites bring a group together and many spread harmony among the congregated. Each are different but similar to grow within their faith or belief.

Edit: Then you will have to research each individual sect and dogma of each branch of the Catholic and Orthodoxy. Many of their masses are similar and are similarly named but there will be certain aspects that are a reflection of their cultural traditions as well. Mexican Catholics celebrate mass a little different than those here in an American Catholic Mass. I can not remember the name of the mass that is preformed at the middle of the morning prayers (it is named different) but is similar to the one in America.

There are many Jewish rites, and some of them seem to be clear predecessors to the Christian rite. The most obvious is the rite of the mikva - the ritual bath. This has been adopted into the rite of baptism by the Christians.

Zvi the Fiddler

ya there rite is to kill and kick out as many Palestinians out of there home town