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The Armenian Apostolic Church is the national church of the Armenian people. Part of an Eastern Christian denomination in communion with other Oriental Orthodox churches, it is one of the most ancient Christian institutions. [5] And is "seen by many as the custodian of Armenian national identity". [6] "Beyond its role as a religious institution ...
The Armenian Latter-day Saints were driven from their homes. In 1921, church leaders encouraged Latter-day Saints in the United States and in Aintab to fast and pray for deliverance these Armenian Latter-day Saints. $115,000 were donated and used to move members south to Aleppo, Syria and some migrated to the United states.
As noted by Thomson, Christianity and the institution of the church spread in Armenia "through the social and political structure indigenous to that country." [41] The church took possession of the extensive properties of the pre-Christian centers of worship. [42] The early Armenian churches were built on the sites of pagan temples. [43]
The Catholicos is often referred to both by the church and the media as the Armenian Pontiff. [2] [3] Historically, the Catholicos was known in English and other languages as the Armenian Patriarch or the Patriarch of Armenia, and sometimes as the Patriarch of Etchmiadzin (or Echmiadzin) to distinguish from the Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople and the Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem.
Like all Oriental Orthodox churches, the Armenian Church has been referred to as monophysite by both Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox theologians because it rejected the decisions of the Council of Chalcedon, which condemned the belief of one incarnate nature of Christ . The Armenian Church officially severed ties with Rome and ...
The Forty Martyrs Armenian Cathedral (Arabic: كنيسة الأربعين شهيد, romanized: Kanīsa al-ʿarbaʾīn šahīd, Armenian: Ս. Քառասնից Մանկանց Մայր Եկեղեցի, romanized: S. K’arrasnits’ Mankants’ Mayr Yekeghets’i) of Aleppo, Syria, is a 15th-century Armenian Apostolic church located in the old Christian quarter of Jdeydeh.
As the seat of the Armenian Catholic Patriarchal Exarchate of Jerusalem and Amman of the Armenian Catholic Church, an Eastern Catholic particular church sui iuris in full communion with the Pope in Rome, and the Catholic Church, [5] the church building holds the status of cathedral. The facility is also the Armenian Catholic hospice in Jerusalem.
In the event, only some important stones—the altar, the stone where Jesus Christ descended according to tradition, and Armenian Church's holiest relic, [79] the Right Arm of Gregory the Illuminator—were moved to New Julfa. [60] They were incorporated in the local Armenian St. Georg Church when it was built in 1611.