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On November 3, 2014, Pashayan began serving as the parish priest at St. Mary's Armenian Apostolic Church in Toronto, in the Armenian Prelacy of Canada, until appointed to serve as dean of St. Gregory the Illuminator Armenian Apostolic Church in Caracas, Venezuela on January 7, 2016. Keghart Kosbakian (April 1, 2016 - June 30, 2019) Gomidas ...
The Armenian Prelacy of Canada (Armenian: Գանատայի Հայոց Թեմ), is a diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church affiliated with the Holy See of Cilicia, formed in 2002. The prelacy building is located at 3401 Oliver Asselin in Montreal , Quebec , Canada.
Armenian Apostolic Church has two jurisdictions in North America: under the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin there are three dioceses, two in the United States (eastern and western), and one in Canada; [3] while under the Holy See of Cilicia there are also two dioceses in the United States (eastern and western), and one in Canada (see: Armenian ...
The two churches operate under the Armenian Catholic Eparchy of Our Lady of Nareg in the United States of America and Canada. [4] Up to 10,000 Catholic Armenians reside in Canada, with the largest community in Montreal. [43] [44] There are four Armenian Protestant churches in Canada, two in Montreal and one in Toronto and Cambridge.
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 ]
In 2024, the church had 600,000 members in North America and 10,000 members in South America; they also had 25,000 members in Europe. [ 63 ] Lebanon , home to a large and influential Armenian diaspora community with its own political parties, has more than 17 recognized Armenian Apostolic churches.
Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of an Armenian church dating back almost 2,000 years, making it the oldest structure of its kind in the country and one of the oldest in the world.
Currently around 1.5 million Armenians live in North America, of which 35,000 belong to the Armenian Catholic Church. In the 19th century Catholic Armenians from Western Armenia , mainly from the towns and cities of Karin ( Erzurum ), and from Constantinople and Mardin , traveled to the United States seeking employment.