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	Armenia (Catholic Encyclopedia) - BibleWiki
		The office of catholicos or patriarch was for a considerable period confined to the family of St.
		The vacant see of the catholicos was filled by the king, and the coveted position went to Housik, of the family of the Aghbianos, rival to that of St.
		The Catholicos Papken in the Synod of Vagharchapat (491) solemnly condemned in the presence of the Armenian, Iberian, and Albanian bishops the Council of Chalcedon.
	bible.tmtm.com /wiki/Armenia_(Catholic_Encyclopedia) (4367 words)

	Catholicos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thus the Catholicos of the East became the head of the Persian church.
		The Malankara Orthodox Church holds the view that it was the pre-Nestorian Catholicate, with its autocephalous rank, that was revived in the East for the Orthodox in the 6th century by Mar Yakub Burdana and relocated to India in 1912.
		H.B. Aboon Mor Baselios Thomas I is presently the canonical Catholicos and the head of the Syrian Orthodox (Jacobite) Christains in India.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Catholicos (916 words)

	Catholicos
		tr.) it was forbidden to appeal from the Catholicos of Seleucia to the Patriarch of Antioch.
		The Albanian catholicos remained loyal to the Armenian Church, with the exception of a brief schism towards the end of the sixth century.
		Shortly afterwards Albania was assimilated partly with Armenia and partly with Georgia.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/c/catholicos.html (729 words)

	Armenia - Travel Photos by Galen R Frysinger, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
		Armenia (country), republic in western Asia, bordered by Georgia on the north, Azerbaijan on the east and the Azerbaijani exclave of Naxçývan (Nakhichevan’) on the southwest, Iran on the south, and Turkey on the west.
		Armenia was the most ethnically homogeneous republic of the 15 republics that made up the USSR, and the country is still characterized by a high degree of ethnic homogeneity.
		Armenia’s constitution was approved by referendum in July 1995, replacing the 1978 constitution of the Soviet period.
	www.galenfrysinger.com /armenia.htm (4270 words)

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		During the ceremony, the flag of Armenia was raised in the presence of the Vatican diplomatic representatives as well as the foreign diplomatic corps of the Vatican.
		The election of the new catholicos was being widely discussed among the faithful outside in the courtyard of the monastery, from where the snowy peak of Mt. Ararat was clearly visible.
		Archbishop Karekin Nersissian Archbishop Karekin Nersissian, Pontifical Vicar (Primate) of the Ararat Diocese was born in Abaran, Armenia in 1951.
	www.sain.org /WINDOW/Cathogos.txt (5522 words)

	About Armenia-Discover armenia-armenia
		Holy Echmiadzin is the historical center of Armenian Apostolic Church, the seat of the Catholicos of All Armenians.
		Flora in Armenia is typical of alpine or steppe regions.
		Armenia is a country with a long grape-growing tradition and winemaking dating from 40 centuries.
	www.armeniantourinfo.com /thisis.htm (2059 words)

	Armenian Catholic Church in Russia \| The Library \| The History of the Armenian Catholic Church (by Dr. Salavat Aroyan)
		In their opinion, the reason of emergence of the Antichalcedonian movement in Armenia is that fact, that the decision of this assembly and "The Paper of Leo" (the letter of the Pope -S.А.) to Armenia were brought by asirians priests who spared furious Antichalcedonian positions.
		The Catholicos of all Armenians Gregory Paglavuni (1116- 1166) together with the brother Nerses Shnurali in 1141 and in 1143 participated in the church cathedrals of Antioch and Jerusalem.
		The activity of the missionaries in Armenia was especially efficient in the 2 half of the XVII century.
	www.armeniancatholic.ru /en/library/aroyan.html (3969 words)

	Armenia
		Armenia covers 11,500 square miles in the southern Caucasus, which is an area slightly larger than the state of Maryland.
		Turkish Armenia was the scene of numerous massacres from 1892 to 1894, in which it is estimated that almost 300,000 Armenians were killed.
		Armenia was rebuilt and industrialized during the Soviet period and remained a part of the USSR until it declared it independence in September 1991.
	members.tripod.com /~stelka/Armenia.html (1192 words)

	NationMaster - Statistics on Armenia. 1432 facts and figures, stats and information on Armenian economy, crime, people, ...
		The eastern area of Armenia was ceded by the Ottomans to Russia in 1828; this portion declared its independence in 1918, but was conquered by the Soviet Red Army in 1920.
		Armenia and Azerbaijan began fighting over the area in 1988; the struggle escalated after both countries attained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.
		Turkey imposed an economic blockade on Armenia and closed the common border because of the Armenian occupation of Nagorno-Karabakh and surrounding areas.
	www.nationmaster.com /country/am-armenia (325 words)

	Catholicate of the East
		'CATHOLICOS OF THE EAST' was originally the title conferred to the ecclesiastical head of the Christian congregation in the erstwhile Persian Empire that extended from Mesopotamia in the west, to the boundaries of the present day Afghanistan and Northern India in the east.
		The ‘Catholicos of Seleucia/East’ was the deputy of the Patriarch of Antioch with certain privileges including that of consecrating the Bishops on behalf of the Patriarch.
		The transition of the title, from ‘Catholicos’ to ‘Maphrian’, was effected by the Syrian Jacobites to maintain their identity and distinctiveness from those who embraced Nestorianism.
	catholicose.org /PauloseII/Catholicate.htm (3327 words)

	Armenia - History
		The "renaissance of Armenia" was accomplished during the reign of Tigran the Great (95-99 B.C.), who proclaimed himself "King of Kings." Under Tigran II, Armenia grew to a great degree of military strength and political influence.
		In order that we may realize the real implications of the history of Armenia and grasp the soul of this people, we must turn our gaze upon the beginning of the 4th century, which was momentous in its consequences for the growth of the nation.
		Armenia was made part of the Transcaucasian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic in 1922, and in 1936, it became one of the Soviet Union's constituent republics.
	richardsmith.net /armenia/sako.html (2284 words)

	ARMENIAN CHURCH TIMELINE
		The Armenian Church is apostolic because of the preaching of the Apostles Thaddeus and Bartholomew in Armenia.
		Catholicos Stepanos II Rshtouni transfers the Catholicosate to the island of Aghtamar, the royal seat of the Artsruni Kingdom of Vaspurakan.
		The Council of Vagharshapat elects the monk Kirakos Khor Virapetsi as Catholicos of All Armenians.
	www.sourphagop.org /churchtime.html (2514 words)

	Armenia Diaspora Conference Official Site
		Armenia was the only former Soviet republic to secede from the union in accordance with a corresponding Soviet law.
		Armenia's independence was internationally recognized after the formal dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991.
		Visiting Armenia just prior to the scheduled visit of the Pope, Russian Orthodox Patriarch Aleksii II meets in Yerevan with President Kocharian and Catholicos of all Armenians Garegin II.The Russian Patriarch participates in a joint ecumenical service with the Archbishop of Canterbury, Romanian Orthodox Patriarch Teocist and the Armenian Catholicos during his visit to Armenia.
	www.armeniadiaspora.com /inside/history/1999-09.html (4211 words)

	Armenia
		The coat of arms of the Republic of Armenia depicts, in the center on a shield, Mount Ararat with Noah's ark and the coats of arms of the four kingdoms of historical Armenia.
		The coat of arms of the Third Republic of Armenia was reestablished with slight modifications in 1991 from the original coat of arms of the First Republic of Armenia that restored the Armenian State after nearly 600 years of foreign domination of Armenia in 1918.
		Cilician Armenia or Little Armenia as it was known to Western historians was to the west of historic Greater Armenia on the beautiful shores of the Mediterranean Sea.
	www.allstates-flag.com /fotw/flags/am.html (1218 words)

	Catholicos of Armenia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		His Holiness, the Catholicos of Armenia and of All Armenians (plural Catholicoi, due to its Greek origin) is the head archbishop of Armenia's dominant church, the Armenian Apostolic Church.
		It is one of the Oriental Orthodox churches that separated from the rest of the Christian church in 451 as a result of the decisions of the Council of Chalcedon.
		The first Catholicos of Armenia and of All Armenians was Saint Thaddeus, one of Jesus's apostles.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Catholicos_of_Armenia (166 words)

	Armenian_Catholic
		Catholicos Apraham Bedros I: Re-uniter of Armenians and Latins
		Just as the Pope of Rome sits on the throne of St. Peter, the Armenian Catholicos, according to the expression of the ancient historian St. Movses Khorenats'i, "sits on the throne of Thaddeus." Thus he is "father and head" of the Armenian Church.
		Catholicos Nerses Tarmouni is the nineteenth Catholicos to be re-united with the successor of Soorp Bedros, Patriarch of Rome.
	www.geocities.com /wmwolfe_48044/Armenian_Catholic.html (428 words)

	Church of Armenia - OrthodoxWiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		The Church of Armenia, sometimes called the Armenian Apostolic Church or the Armenian Orthodox Church is one of the Oriental Orthodox churches.
		However, it would not be for about 200 more years that Armenia would become the first country to adopt Christianity as a state religion, in AD 301, when St. Gregory the Illuminator, a missionary from Caesarea, converted the king of Armenia, Trdat IV, to Christianity.
		The hierarch of the Armenian Church is the Catholicos of Armenia.
	orthodoxwiki.org /Armenia (564 words)

	ARMENIAN HIGHLAND (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Catholicos Vazgen I reigned on the Seat of St. Gregory from 1955 - 1994, one of the longest in Catholicosal history.
		Catholicos Vazgen I undertook a tireless effort in renewing a number of ancient Armenian churches and reviving a number of institutions throughout the Holy See.
		Catholicos Vazgen I ‘s successor became Garegin I, previously the Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia, ordained in April of 1995, after the election by the Church Council of the Holy See.
	www.armenianhighland.com /catholicoi/catholicos/chronicle560.html (416 words)

	Armenian Assembly of America - Armenia This Week
		Armenia's President Levon Ter-Petrossian delivered a major address before the National Assembly on February 18, analyzing the newly adopted national budget and the impact of the Karabagh conflict and twin blockades on the Armenian economy.
		Armenia's Foreign Ministry denied allegations by Russia's Minister for C.I.S. Relations Aman Tuleyev that millions of dollars in illegal Russian arms shipments were sent to Armenia.
		Armenia's Foreign Minister Alexander Arzoumanian asserted that the de facto existence of the Republic of Nagorno Karabagh was a success for Armenian foreign policy.
	www.aaainc.org /ArTW/print.php?issueID=277 (923 words)

	Historical-Political Aspects of Karabagh
		Artsakh served as a shield for the central regions of Armenia from the raids of nomadic tribes from the east.
		The sources testify that Mountainous Karabagh was one of the original provinces of Armenia regardless of the different names assigned to the territory in various periods of the history, and the Armenians have always been the aborigine population of Nagorno Karabagh.
		Yesai Hasan-Jalalian, the catholicos of Gandzasar, and Nerses, the catholicos of the northern regions of Artsakh were also actively involved in the written negotiations with the rulers of foreign states.
	www.karabagh.am /eng/GlavTem/ist-polaspects.htm (3877 words)

	Cappadocia: St Gregory
		Gregory the Illuminator himself became the first patriarch Catholicos of Armenia's Holy Apostolic Church and began the construction of the Great Mother Church and Catholicos seat of St. Echmiatsin which in Armenian means the site of Jesus's appearance or landing.
		Although many priests converted and joined the Christian faith (in the IV th century AD in the monarchal order of Armenia the word of the king was the law and his orders were unquestionably carried out, although this would change in the V th century with the rise of the forcible nobility).
		Gregory establishment new churches in Western Armenia, the ancient Sun worshiping center of Ashtishat was turned into a new center of Christian faith, the Grande temple of Ashtishat being turned into a church.
	www.turizm.net /cities/cappadocia/stgregory.htm (1792 words)

	Siunia
		It soon became a metropolis subject to the Catholicos of Armenia, and, as we see in a letter of the patriarch Ter Sargis in 1006, it counted twelve crosiers, which must signify twelve suffragan sees.
		In 1837 the Diocese of Siunia was, by order of the Synod of Etchmiadzin, suppressed and subjected directly to the catholicos under the supervision of the Bishop of Erivan, who had a vicar at Tatheo.
		The complete list of the bishops and metropolitans of Siunia, from the fifth century till the nineteenth century, is known; amongst them we may mention Petros, a writer at the beginning of the sixth century, and Stephanos Orbelian, the historian of his Church.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/s/siunia.html (352 words)

	Echmiadzin, Armenia - Travel Photos by Galen R Frysinger, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
		The earliest authentic accounts of the introduction of Christianity into Armenia date from the apostolic work of St. Gregory the Illuminator, who, in 303, converted King Tiridates III and members of his court.
		Christianity was strengthened in Armenia by the translation of the Bible into the Armenian language by the Armenian monk and scholar St. Mesrob.
		The remaining larger portion of the Armenian church is headed by its catholicos, who resides at Echmiadzin, a monastery near Yerevan in Armenia.
	www.galenfrysinger.com /echmiadzin,_armenia.htm (341 words)

	The Armenian Church \| Church History
		Read Agathangelos' History of St. Gregory and the Conversion of Armenia, an ancient account written prior to the 10th Century.
		Gregory the Enlightener was imprisoned for years, and upon his release he converted King Tiridates III, by healing the king of an incurable affliction through the power of God. After, the king proclaimed Christianity the official religion of Armenia, making it the first country with a national Christian church, the pair helped spread the religion.
		The Catholicos is the leader of the Armenian Church; currently it is His Holiness Karekin II, Catholicos of All Armenians. He is the 132nd Catholicos.
	www.armenianchurch.net /church/history/index.html (322 words)

	WWW-VL History of Armenia Index - Armenian History
		The History of Armenia as Presented in American Historiography (A Critical Survey), IN ARMENIAN.
		History of Armenia in Brief provided by the permanent mission of the Republic of Armenia to the UN.
		Catholicos Astvatsatur Hamadantzi (1715-1725) and the Armenian Liberation Movement, IN ARMENIAN.
	history.armenianhouse.org (538 words)

	The Catholicos of All Armenians commends World Vision's work in Tavush (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Karekin II, the Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians, highly commended World Vision’s work in Tavush region during his recent visit to the Diocese of Gougark in northeast Armenia.
		The Catholicos gave his blessing to World Vision’s projects that help to restore the Christian faith of Armenian children in a country with a rich Christian history.
		In Ijevan, the centre of Tavush, His Holiness Karekin II met with the representatives of the regional authorities, local and international organisations, and discussed the issues related to the spiritual and social situation in the region.
	www.wvarmenia.am /News/tavush_catholicos.htm (444 words)

	Churches
		The current Catholicos was elected to a life term on October 27, 1999.
		The chief bishop of the Armenian Church, called the Catholicos ("universal bishop"), is at the head of the Armenian Church hierarchy, and resides at Holy Etchmiadzin in Armenia.
		The original title of the Catholicos was "chief bishop of Armenia," which was replaced with "Catholicos of Armenia," presumably in the fifth century.
	caot.lacitycollege.edu /112/FinalArmenianGenocide/Churches.htm (184 words)

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