Armenian Catholic Church
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The Armenian Catholic Church (Armenian: Հայ Կաթողիկէ Եկեղեցի Hay Kat'oghike Yeveghets'i) is an Eastern Catholic Church sui juris in full union with the Roman Catholic Church. It is in full communion with and accepts the authority of the Pope in Rome as regulated by Eastern canon law. Since 1749, Armenian Catholic Church is headquarter at the Armenian Catholic Patriarchate complex in Bzoummar, Lebanon.
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After the Armenian Apostolic Church, along with the rest of Oriental Orthodoxy, formally broke off communion from the Chalcedonian churches, numerous Armenian bishops made attempts to restore communion with the Catholic Church (Rome). In 1195 during the Crusades, the church of the Armenian kingdom of Cilicia entered into a union with the Catholic Church which lasted until Cilicia was conquered by the Mamluks in 1375. The union was later re-established during the Council of Florence in 1439, but did not have any real effects for centuries.
In 1740, Abraham-Pierre I Ardzivian, who had earlier become a Catholic, was elected as the patriarch of Sis. Two years later Pope Benedict XIV formally established the Armenian Catholic Church. The headquarters of the patriarchate was later moved to Antelias, north of Beirut. In 1749, the Armenian Catholic Church built a convent in Bzoummar, Lebanon. During the horrific Armenian genocide in 1915–1918 the Church scattered among neighboring countries, mainly Lebanon and Syria.
The Armenian Catholic Church can also refer to the church formed by Armenians living in Poland in 1620 after the union of Leopolis by Mikołaj (Nicholas) Torosowicz, which has since established bonds with the older Armenian Catholic Church. The church which had been historically centered in Galicia as well as in the pre-1939 Polish borderlands in the east, now has two primary centers; one in Gdansk, and the other in Gliwice. A number of its members migrated to Sweden, which holds its own chapter (see Catholic Church in Sweden).
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The Armenian Catholic Patriarchate of the See of Cilicia is the top authority of the Armenian Catholic Church headed by a Catholicos-Patriarch. The present head is Nerses Bedros XIX Tarmouni.
- Archdioceses:
- Beirut, Lebanon
- Aleppe, Syria
- Baghdad, Iraq
- Constantinopole (Istanbul), Turkey
- Lviv, Ukraine
- Eparchies
- Alexandria, Egypt
- Isfahan, Iran
- Al Qamishli, Syria
- New York, NY, USA (Our Lady of Nareg, New York)
- Paris, FRance (Sainte-Croix-de-Paris)
- Buenos Aires, Argentina (San Gregorio de Narek en Buenos Aires)
- Apostolic Exarchates
- Latin America
- Mexico
- Ordinariates for the Faithful of the Eastern Rite
- East Europe
- Greece
- Romania
- Patriarchal Exarchates
- Damascus, Syria
- Jerusalem, Israel
- Amman, Jordan
The current Catholicos-Patriarch is Nerses Bedros XIX. The church is one of the Eastern Rite Catholic churches and uses the Armenian Rite and Armenian language in the liturgy.
Today there are sizeable Armenian Catholic communities in Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Canada, France, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Romania and the United States.
[edit] Gallery
 General view of the Patriarchate complex and convent |
.JPG) Main building (1749) |
 Armenian Genocide memorial khatchkar (1960) |
 Memorial relief to the Armenian Genocide and Catholicos Abraham Petros I Ardzivian (1993) |
 Inside the Our Lady of the Assumption Church |
 St. Gregory the Illuminator - St. Elie Church, Debbas Square, downtown Beirut, Lebanon (1909) |
 St. Gregory the Illuminator Church, Glendale, California (2001) |
[edit] See also
- List of Armenian Catholic Patriarchs of Cilicia
- Mechitarist Monks of the Armenian Catholic Church
- Vardapet, doctor-monk
[edit] External links
- Official web site
- Armenian Catholic Church in Lebanon
- Armenian Catholic Church in Russia
- Armeniapedia - Armenian Catholic Church
- Catholic Churches
- Armenian Apostolic Church Library
- St. Mark's Armenian Catholic Church, near Philadelphia, Pa.
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