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	Armenian Catholic Church - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		In 1195 during the Crusades, the church of the Armenian kingdom of Cilicia entered into a union with the Roman Catholic Church which lasted until Cilicia was conquered by Tatars in 1375.
		The church is one of the Eastern-Rite Catholic churches and uses the Armenian rite and Armenian language in liturgy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Armenian_Catholics (261 words)

	Roman Catholic Church - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The other "Last Rites" are Confession (if the dying person is physically unable to confess, at least absolution, conditional on the existence of contrition, is given), and the Eucharist, which when administered to the dying is known as "Viaticum", a word whose original meaning in Latin was "provision for a journey".
		The Sarum Rite and the York Use of the dioceses of Salisbury and York in Pre-Reformation England.
		The Lyonnais Rite of Lyon, France is a relic of this rite.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Catholic_Communion (9576 words)

	HOLLYWOOD ARMENIAN COMMUNITY
		Armenian is spoken by Armenians in Turkey and Republic of Armenia, and in Armenian settlements elsewhere in the Middle East, Europe, and the United States.
		For example, Armenians say, “he is an actor, or he is an actress,” where the nouns actor and actress identifies the gender of the person and not the pronoun.
		Armenian Californians have seen a governor from their heritage elected” On the other hand, the political allies and active lobbying help the political groups to apply political pressure on the legislature.
	www.angelfire.com /yt/ArmMitk (9075 words)

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		In 1740, several bishops of the Armenian church gathered in the city of Aleppo and elected Abraham Ardzivian, Archbishop of Aleppo, as Catholicos of those who were Armenian rite catholics.
		The recognition of the Armenian catholic hierarchy by the bishop of Rome was an expedient way to secure the protection of Catholic powers of Europe, which in turn presented enough political muscle to force the Sublime Port in halting the persecutions against the "faithful." The Armenian Patriarch obviously opposed such a move.
		The existence of this vacuum is mainly due to the forced Constitution by the Muslim Sultans of the Ottoman empire in western Armenia, and the Russian Church Constitution (Bolojenia) imposed by the Czar in Russian Armenia.
	www.sain.org /window/Denomin3.txt (2008 words)

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		Armenians are gathered either around cultural centres or around their churches, which provide cultural activities too.
		It is an irrefutable fact that, in their determination "to finish once and for all the Armenian problem", Turkish political and military leaders unleashed their fury on anything which, by its mute presence, could bear witness to the history and culture of the rightful owners of the devastated regions.
		The Catholic Armenians, a certain section of the Armenian community which has remained attached to Rome throughout the centuries, have the same faith as all Catholics, and follow the Armenian Rite Liturgy.
	members.lycos.co.uk /jloughnan/armenia.htm (4546 words)

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		The Armenian Rite, technically a distinct rite, derived from the Antiochene Rite and is an older form of the Byzantine Rite.
		The Byzantine Rite, the largest Eastern Rite, is based on the Rite of St. James of Jerusalem with the later reforms of St. Basil and St.
		The Romanian Rite, centered in Romania with a significant population in the United States, reunited with Rome in 1697 and uses Modern Romanian in their liturgy; in 1948, they were forced to join the Romanian Orthodox Church in Romania, but since the fall of communism, the Catholic Romanian Rite has regained :independence.
	www.ewtn.com /library/LITURGY/FAMTREE.TXT (1098 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Rites in the United States
		On Christmas Eve and Easter Eve the Armenians celebrate Mass in the evening; the Mass then begins with the curtains drawn whilst the introductory psalms and prophecies are sung, but, at the moment the great feast is announced in the Introit, the curtains are withdrawn and the altar appears with full illumination.
		The Gregorian Armenian clergy comprises the archbishop, seven resident and three missionary priests, while the number of Gregorian Armenians is given at 20,000 in the United States.
		The rites already described are the principal rites to be met with in the United States; but there are besides them a few representatives of the remaining Eastern rites, although these are perhaps not sufficiently numerous to maintain their own churches or to constitute separate ecclesiastical entities.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/13078a.htm (8155 words)

	Catholic Encyclopedia: Adana: A diocese of Armenian rite in Asia Minor (Asiatic Turkey).
		A diocese of Armenian rite in Asia Minor (Asiatic Turkey).
		Under him a great national Armenian council (the last of its kind), attended by the patriarch and the king, the clergy and the nobility, was held at Adana (1316).
		Thirty years earlier, in 1286, another Armenian council met for forty days in Adana for the purpose of electing the Catholics Constantine and to dispose of several other questions.
	www.greatestbooks.org /visitorlibrary/cathencyclopaedia/index/a/adana.htm (487 words)

	Learn more about Catholicism in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		There are also Eastern Rite Catholics whose liturgy is similar to that of the Orthodox, and also allow married men to be ordained as priests, but who recognize the Roman Pope as the head of their church.
		However, in the Eastern rite married men are admitted as diocesan priests, but not as bishops or monastic priests; and on rare occasions married priests converting from other Christian groups have been permitted to be ordained in the Western rite.
		In the Western rite, married men may be ordained as permanent deacons but they may not remarry if their spouse dies or if the marriage is annulled.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /c/ca/catholicism.html (4268 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Rites
		The only case in which an ancient Eastern rite has been wilfully romanized is that of the Uniat Malabar Christians, where it was not Roman authority but the misguided zeal of Alexius de Menezes, Archbishop of Goa, and his Portuguese advisers at the Synod of Diamper (1599) which spoiled the old Malabar Rite.
		Syriac in the Syrian, Maronite, Chaldean, and Malabar Rites.
		For instance, the Collect for St. Juliana Falconieri (19 June) in the Roman Rite refers to the story of her miraculous communion before her death, told at length in the sixth lesson of her Office, but the truth of that story is not part of the Catholic Faith.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/13064b.htm (15482 words)

	armenian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Armenian Liturgy rich in symbolism and mysticism is one of the eight Liturgies of the Eastern Catholic Church, and is used exclusively by the Armenians.
		The Liturgy is use among Armenians since the end of the 5th century, although in substance the work of St. Gregory Nazianzen
		cermonies to the national character of the Armenian Liturgy.
	www.homestead.com /Easterncatholichymns/armenian.html (65 words)

	Eastern Rites of the Catholic Church
		Before Vatican II the term "Rite" was used to refer to the Church you “belonged to” by Canon Law.
		The Chaldean and Syro-Malabar Rite are local expression of the East Syrian (Assyro-Chaldean) Rite, even though the Chaldeans are centered in Iraq and the Malabars are centered in India, claiming to have been Christianized by St Thomas.
		On a deeper, interior level, these rites are characterized by their transcendental, eschatological spirit and profound sense of mystery and awe; by the richly developed trinitarian, Christological, and Marian theology of their prayers and hymns; and by their strong monastic stamp.” (Encyclopedia of Catholicism, p.
	www.jmahoney.com /eastern_rites.htm (505 words)

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		Henceforth, since the XIth century, the Armenians united their efforts to those of the Crusaders for the re-conquest of the Holy places, and entered in relation with the church of Rome.
		From 1928, the Armenian Catholic Church was again reorganized to the administrative, scholar, cultural and social level.
		The Armenian Catholic Church is present in the religious, cultural, political and social Lebanese scene.
	www.opuslibani.org.lb /church/armenian/ehistory.htm (243 words)

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		The ritual of Holy Matrimony of the Armenian Church is one of the most inspiring and uplifting rituals in the Eastern Orthodox Christian Churches.
		The marriage ceremony of the Armenian Church is rich in ritual and symbolism.
		The rite of crowning is followed by the blessing of the common cup when a goblet of wine is blessed in remembrance of the marriage at Cana of Galilee which was blessed by Christ's presence.
	home.comcast.net /~mcbaz/ceremony.html (678 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Aleppo
		The population is about 127,000 of whom 97,450 are Mussulmans (Arabs, Turks, etc.), 19,200 Catholics (Greeks, United or Melchites, Syrians, Armenians, Maronites, Chaldeans, and Latins), 2,800 non-Catholic Christians (mostly Gregorian Armenians), and 7,800 Jews.
		Four Catholic archbishops govern the Melchites, the Syrians, the Armenians, and the Maronites.
		The Gregorian Armenians are administered by a Vartabet appointed by the Catholicos of Sis.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/01283b.htm (510 words)

	Eastern Catholic
		Secondary, the Syrian liturgy or rite of the Apostle St. James of Jerusalem in the Syrian language is observed by about 800,000 Schismatics in Syria, Palestine and Egypt.
		Thirdly, the Armenian rite and language is used exclusively by the people of the Armenian race in Asiatic Turkey, Persia, Russia, an the colonies in Hungary, Glacial and the Ukraine (about 2 ½ millions); also by the Catholic Armenians who count only about 100,00 souls.
		Fifth, the Chaldean rite in the old Chaldean language is observed by the heretical was well as Schismatical Nestorians in Persia (about 140,000) and the Catholic "Chaldean Christians" of Persia (about 70,000) and India and the Malabar Islands (about 250,000).
	www.melkite.org /eastern.htm (947 words)

	Byzantines.net - Eastern-Rite Catholicism
		For "Rite" is not just liturgy, but rather a complete Catholic tradition, the unique way that a particular community of the faithful perceives, expresses and lives its Catholic life within the one Mystical Body of Christ.
		All Rites are one in the union of Christ’s Church under the headship of the Bishop of Rome.
		This is especially true of the East, where the intimate union of Rite with the religious culture and piety of the people has preserved the primitive centrality of the liturgy in the religious life of the Christian community.
	www.byzantines.net /books/eastern-rite.htm (9994 words)

	The Armenian Wedding Ceremony
		It was not until the ninth century that the church developed a special rite of marriage separate from the Eucharistic Liturgy.
		Normally, after entering a civil marriage the Christian couple partook of the Eucharist and this "communion" was understood as a seal of marriage and all responsibilities therein.
		It was at this time that the rite of crowning was separated from the Liturgy and became a unique service of blessing the union of husband and wife.
	www.armenianheritage.com /reweddin.htm (473 words)

	Rites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The essential elements of the public wcrship of the Church, in the Sacrifice of the Mass and the administration of the sacraments, are the same in all Catholic rites.
		The derived rites are: The Armenian, the Chaldean and the Maronite rites,
		The expansion of the Byzantine rite was intimately connected with the political ambitions of the Emperors, eager always to spread their 'Influence throughout the Balkan and Russian lands, to Syria, to Palestine, to Egypt and even to the coasts of Italy.
	ecah.homestead.com /rites.html (1478 words)

	Research Paper on The Armenian Rite
		Armenian Catholics are among several other Eastern Catholic rites such as Coptic, Syrian, Chaldean, Maronite, etc. The Armenian is one of the earliest Catholic rites and is similar in many ways to that of the Roman Catholic Church of today.
		The Armenian rite included much more literary elements and its own language as opposed to Latin or Roman Catholics.Armenian Catholics have a great history and a very successful modern day set-up.
		The Armenian rite has evolved to a very successful and populous rite in today's Christianity.
	www.paper-research.com /paper/The_Armenian_Rite-169307.html (170 words)

	Armenian Catholic Church -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The Armenians embraced Christianity about AD 300 and were the first people to do so as a nation.
		About 50 years after the Council of Chalcedon (451), the Armenians repudiated the Christological decisions of the council and became the Armenian Apostolic (Orthodox) Church, a body that basically adhered to the doctrinal...
		The Armenians, who regard themselves as the “first Christian nation,” were converted to Christianity by St. Gregory the Illuminator about AD 300.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9009515 (929 words)

	Armenian Catholic Church in Russia \| About the Armenian Catholic Church \| Liturgical Heritage
		The use of a proper specifically Armenian service was facilitated by the rapid transition to the local language - soon with the appearance of the Armenian alphabet, in the fifth century.
		During its formative period the Armenian service underwent influence from the practice of the Jerusalem Church, and in the middle ages a number of influences from the Latin Church.
		Although at first the service of the Armenian Catholic Church underwent a serious process of latinization, already during the nineteenth century it was purified of many of these Latin elements and nowadays differences between the Armenian Catholic Church and the Armenian Apostolic Church are almost nonexistent.
	www.armeniancatholic.ru /en/church/3.html (428 words)

	Rites of Mass: Byzantine; Louis-Marie de Blignieres
		Armenian Rite: 'This is My blood of the New Testament which is shed for you and for many for the expiation and forgiveness of sins.' Coptic: 'For this is My blood of the New Covenant, which is shed for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins.'
		Chaldean Rite: 'This is My blood of the New covenant, the mystery of faith, which is shed for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins.'
		Malabar Rite: 'For this is the chalice of My blood of the New and Eternal Testament, the Mystery of Faith, which is shed for you and for many for the remission of sins.
	www.wandea.org.pl /rites-mass.htm (1544 words)

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	Leo XIII - Paterna Caritas
		Nay, even these very men who fulfil the duties of religion in schism from you, boast that the Armenians were taught the faith of Christ by Gregory, a man of eminent holiness, who earned the surname of "the Enlightener," and they honour him as their father and patron with displays of much reverence and devotion.
		Lest, moreover, the distance intervening between the Armenian faithful and the Roman See might weaken the bonds between them, it was prudently arranged that there should be an Apostolic Delegate in the capital of the empire to take the place of the Pope.
		Lastly, pray with Us, that the docility of the Armenians, and their return to Catholic unity may be an example and guiding light to others who indeed are Christians, but have seceded from Rome, so that all having returned to the home from which they fell away, there may be one fold and one shepherd.
	www.vatican.va /holy_father/leo_xiii/encyclicals/documents/hf_l-xiii_enc_25071888_paterna-caritas_en.html (1018 words)

	World Watch - Catholic World Report - April 2001
		Sister Nune, who is a member of Georgia’s Armenian minority, disclosed that the worsening economic situation in Armenia has resulted in the formation of a community of Catholics of the Armenian rite in the Russian capital.
		There is no facility for the full liturgy in the Armenian rite (which is the same as in the Armenian Apostolic Church, except for the addition of a prayer for the Pope).
		As with the Byzantine Catholics, the Armenians are subordinate to the Latin-rite administration and are not registered as a parish.
	www.catholic.net /rcc/Periodicals/Igpress/2001-04/dossier4.html (1286 words)

	New Catholic Dictionary: Armenian Rite (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Originally, the language was Syriac, but it is now ancient Armenian.
		This rite is used by both Uniats and Gregorians, i.e., those separated from Rome.
		The use of curtains screening off, at times, the priest from the people is noteworthy, also the Roman Preparatory prayers and the Last Gospel, both introduced through the influence of Western missionaries.
	www.catholic-forum.com /saints/ncd00783.htm (69 words)

	Armenian Church (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In general, Armenian practices resemble those of other Eastern churches; the priests may marry and communion is distributed in both bread and wine, although the use of unleavened bread is a Western practice.
		Part of the Armenian Church reunited with Rome temporarily in the 13th and 14th cent., and missionary work by the Roman Church in the 14th cent.
		Eastern Diocese of the Armenian Church of America Launches New Initiative to Support Growth of New Spiritual Leadership: The young supporters of the Armenian Church gather at the Diocesan Center...
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/society/A0804756.html (428 words)

	Armenian Christianization to be Celebrated (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Burns Library has acquired a magnificent ivory-covered facsimile of a 10th-century Armenian Book of the Gospels, akin to an Armenian Book of Kells, which will be at the center of an afternoon of events on campus Nov. 11 to commemorate the 1,700th anniversary of the Christianization of Armenia.
		A Mass celebrated in the Armenian Rite in St. Mary's Chapel will highlight the Saturday program honoring the library's acquisition of the rare reproduction of the earliest Armenian Gospel book, the Codex Etschmiadzin or Etchmiadzin Gospels, considered the most precious document of Armenian artistic and linguistic creation.
		Raphael Andonian of Holy Cross Armenian Catholic Church in Belmont will celebrate the Mass in the Armenian Rite for the feast of the Holy Archangels and all the heavenly hosts at 4:45 p.m.
	www.bc.edu /bc_org/rvp/pubaf/chronicle/v9/n2/liturgy.html (206 words)

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