[8] Tchamtchian, op. From the exposition above it can be seen that the hierarchical Church in Armenia was characterized by the first conception with St. Gregory the Illuminator in the fourth century. This happened in 1742. In 1991, after the fall of the Soviet Union, the Bishop of Rome, Pope John Paul II merged the communities in Georgia and Russia with those in Armenia, creating a new ordinariate of Armenia and Eastern Europe, with its residence in Gyumri. Because some of these were divided according to religious affiliation, the leaders of the Armenian were, in fact, also politically responsible for their communities. To this we have to add the always present political factor of the pressure exercised by Persia upon her Christian subjects in order to keep them in opposition to her rival, the Christian empire. [11]. Presently, around 1.5 million Armenians live in North America, of which 35,000 belong to the Armenian Catholic Church. The part of the Armenian hierarchy that had determined to remain faithful to the dogmatic formula of Chalcedon, had, in the course of the centuries, ups and downs, always having its partisans among the elite of the clergy and adepts among the faithful. A community of Mekhitarist Fathers resides in Sèvres and a convent of Armenian Sisters of the Immaculate Conception runs a school in Marseille. The latter, carried away by the vartapets and their adherents, constantly supported by the authority of the Muslim dominators, found themselves detached from the trunk of the big tree of the Universal Church and consequently from their fellow Armenian brothers who remained inserted in it, keeping jealously the physiognomy of an individual or national Church.
The head[4][5] of the sui iuris Armenian Catholic Church is the Armenian Catholic Patriarch of Cilicia, whose main cathedral and de facto archiepiscopal see is the Cathedral of Saint Elias and Saint Gregory the Illuminator, in Beirut, Lebanon. This national responsibility considerably broadened the scope of the Church’s mission. Of course, not the whole of the Armenian Church with its dioceses, dispersed outside the Cilician kingdom, shared this communion. In spite of all this, the ecclesiastical communion, as far as the unity of faith is concerned, was maintained during the whole 5th century. [7] Sacra Congregazione per Le Chiese Orientali, Codificazione Canonica Orientale, Fonti: Serie III, vol. At the same time, many Catholic Armenians inside the United States moved to San Francisco, San Diego, Chicago, Washington D.C., Atlanta, Miami and Indianapolis. Since then, the conflict of the above-mentioned two conceptions was caused by the dominating politics in Armenia, which was more or less subjugated by foreign powers. Turkey ranks No. This wire transmitted to us the authentic tradition of our Fathers, protagonists of the unity of the Church of Christ which they had professed and which we unanimously profess in the Creed deposited by the 150 Fathers of the Council of Constantinople: One, Catholic, Apostolic Church. In addition to the two Catholicossates of the North, of Georgia and the Aluans, the episcopate of two large Armenian regions, of Seunik and the nine bishops of Vaspurakan, refused to add their signatures to this document. [1] P. Boghos Ananian, The life of Mesrob Mashtotz (in Armenian), Venice 1964, 279-352. In the historical survey we have shown how a handful of Armenian bishops having a Catholicos pro-tempore, about the end of the 6th century, created a split because of the Council of Chalcedon, while another group of Armenian bishops refused to adhere to this split and elected, at the synod of Karin (Erzerum) their own Catholicos in the person of Hovhaness III Bakarantzi in order to be able to continue their ecclesiastical communion faithful to the Armenian tradition with the Universal, i.e., Catholic Church, through the mediation of the Church of Constantinople. Beyond the necessary unity in faith they tended to uniformity even in some points of the rite. Can They Make Something Better? [citation needed]. C III 599-600 Your daily news briefing from the editors of CT. 154, while Azerbaijan ranks No.
According to the Nagorno-Karabakh military, 350 of its servicemen have been killed since Sept. 27. Also, the Seleucia-Ctesiphon Church situated in the Barbarian land was originally linked with Antioch and through her with Rome. Men lift an icon in the Holy Savior Cathedral damaged by shelling during a military conflict, in Shushi, outside Stepanakert, self-proclaimed Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh on October 8. Some Armenians converted to Catholicism, and in the absence of any specific Armenian Catholic Church in effect became Latins. The Synod of Dwin (506-507) which assembled under the Catholicos Babgen (490-515) speaks about it sufficiently. Already during the second half of the 4th century, there arose oppositions concerning the consecration of the Catholicos by the Archbishop of Caesarea which were politically motivated and put this hierarchical link to a severe test. “The Armenian community of San Francisco woke up today to an arson at their church. Avetik, secretly informed about the events in Constantinople whereto his friend Feyzullah had been transferred as Great-Mufti of all the Islam, hastened there.
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