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Minassian acquired a Lutheran church on Mountain Street in 1997. The building was renovated so the Armenian rite liturgy could be celebrated. The Armenian style altar was created by Fathers Raphael and Dajad Yardemian. St. Gregory the Illuminator parish was established in 1998 and Minassian left Our Lady Queen of Martyrs.
It was created by John Paul II on July 3, 1981, as the Apostolic Exarchate of United States of America and Canada for the Armenians. [1] It was elevated to an eparchy on September 12, 2005. The seat of the eparchy is St. Gregory the Illuminator Cathedral in Glendale, California. [2]
The feast day of Saint Gregory the Illuminator is on September 30 according to both the 2004 Roman Martyrology of the Ordinary Form and the 1956 Roman Martyrology [72] of the Extraordinary Form of the Catholic Church; however, the 1962 Roman Missal [73] and its previous editions list the feast day of "Saint Gregory, Bishop of Greater Armenia ...
Saint Gregory the Illuminator Cathedral, Cairo, an Armenian church in Cairo, Egypt built in 1928; Saint Gregory the Illuminator Church, an Armenian Catholic church in Glendale, California built in 2001; Destroyed churches. Saint Gregory the Illuminator Church, Yerevan, was an Armenian Apostolic church in Yerevan, built in the 19th century and ...
The church was commissioned by the first twelve Armenian families that settled in Singapore. [3] It was designed by George Drumgoole Coleman, the architect of many of Singapore's early buildings who also became the first Superintendent of Public Works. The church is dedicated to St Gregory the Illuminator, the first Patriarch of the Armenian ...
St. Gregory the Illuminator was the first ... the church had 600,000 members in North America and 10,000 members in South America; they also had 25,000 members in ...
The huge cathedral is a complex consisting of three churches: the Cathedral (Main Church) with 1700 seats and the Chapels of Saint Tiridates the King and of Saint Ashkhen the Queen (both with 150 seats). These two royal figures were the crucial helpers of St. Gregory in converting Armenia to Christianity.
Saint Gregory the Illuminator became the first Catholicos of All Armenians following the nation's adoption of Christianity as its official religion in 301 AD. The seat of the Catholicos, and the spiritual and administrative headquarters of the Armenian Church, is the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, located in the city of Vagharshapat.