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	Patriarchs - Cilicia (Armenia)
		Elected Patriarch of Cilicia of the Armenians (Lebanon): 1982.08.05
		Elected Patriarch of Cilicia of the Armenians (Lebanon): 1976.07.03
		Appointed Titular Archbishop of Colonia in Armenia and Auxiliary Bishop of Cilicia of the Armenians (Lebanon): 1959.04.24
	www.gcatholic.com /hierarchy/patriarchs-armenian.htm (136 words)

	History of Armenia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In Lesser Armenia, Armenian culture was intertwined with both the European culture of the Crusaders, and with the Hellenic culture of Cilicia.
		Western Armenia was recognized as being part of the Republic of Armenia in the Treaty of Sevres in 1920.
		Armenia, a nation that was under foreign domination for hundreds of years, and was not ready for statehood in between hostile Turkish neighbors, was kept under control and put under Soviet protection from Kemalist Turkey, thanks to the Iron Curtain.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_Armenia (4448 words)

	Patriarch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Historically, a Patriarch may often be the logical choice to act as Ethnarch, representing the community that is identified with his religious confession within a state or empire of a different creed (as Christians within the Ottoman Empire).
		The Patriarch of the West, the Pope and Bishop of Rome
		The Catholicos of Armenia and of All Armenians, Supreme Patriarch of the Armenian Apostolic Church
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Patriarch (718 words)

	Armenia - LoveToKnow 1911
		Under the Medes and Persians Armenia was a satrapy governed by a member of the reigning family; and after the battle of Arbela, 331 B.C., it was ruled by Persian governors appointed by Alexander and his successors.
		Armenia, although politically dependent upon Rome, was connected with Parthia by geographical position, a common language and faith, intermarriage and similarity of arms and dress.
		After the death of Timur, Armenia formed part of the territories of the Turkoman dynasties of Akand Kara-Kuyunli, and under their milder rule the seat of the Catholicus, which, during the Seljuk invasion, had been moved first to Sivas, and then to Lesser Armenia, was re-established, 1441, at Echmiadzin.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Armenia (5579 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Armenia
		Armenia is the name given to a mountainous strip of land situated in the southwestern portion of Asia.
		The office of catholicos or patriarch was for a considerable period confined to the family of St.
		The Armenian patriarch is assisted in the work of tending to the flock by a vicar who is a titular archbishop, by an ecclesiastical council composed of 12 priests, by a civil council and by two other councils, one of which is for the national hospital.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/01736b.htm (4369 words)

	Etschmiadzin
		When the small Christian principality of Lesser Armenia, long upheld by the Crusades (1097-1375), was at last destroyed, the national and religious life of its people naturally turned again towards the earlier venerable centre, in Northern or Greater Armenia.
		Thus a Russian ecclesiastical functionary residing at Etschmiadzin is, in theory, the "Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of all the Armenians".
		His curia is formed by (a) a patriarchal synod (two archbishops, five archpriests); (b) a board of administration (one bishop, two archpriests); (c) an editorial committee (two archpriests and a deacon).
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/e/etschmiadzin.html (926 words)

	The Cilician See
		Now that the Kingdom of Cilicia had fallen and the situation in Cilicia was deteriorating, bishops and Church divines (= Vardapets) of great influence in Armenia Major made plans to elect a Catholicos in Etchmiadzin, the original and highly venerated place of the Catholicosate which had ceased to function as a Catholicosal Seat since 485.
		As the politico-ecclesiastical authority of the Armenian Patriarchs of Constantinople grew in the subsequent centuries, the authority of the Catholicosate of Cilicia was reduced on the grounds of civil rights and activities.
		During the General Assembly held in Nairobi in 1975, the representative of the Catholicosate of Cilicia, Bishop Karekin Sarkissian (the actual Catholicos of Etchmiadzin) was elected a Vice-Moderator of the Council (a position he held until 1983).
	www.saintsarkis.org /Holy_Sea_of_Cilicia.htm (2307 words)

	Eastern Patriarchates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The Treaty of Devol between Antioch and the Byzantine Empire restored the Greek patriarch, though it was never enforced and the Greek patriarch continued to be resident at Constantinople.
		A Latin Patriarch continued to be appointed until the capture of the city by the Mamluks in 1268.
		Patriarch Mar Shimun IV Bassidi ruled that his office would only pass to members of his own family (to a nephew, since the Patriarch was celibate).
	www.hostkingdom.net /orthodox.html (1948 words)

	Armenia and Georgia, Culmen Europae
		The differences are that (1) Armenia was not a Greek colony but the realm of an indigenous people of Anatolia, like the Phrygians and Cappadocians, and (2) Armenia outlived all the Greek colonies, all the other ancient kingdoms of Anatolia, and even Rome itself.
		Armenia has thus traditionally been regarded as the first officially Christian country, though, with uncertainties in dating, Ethiopia may be able to challenge this.
		The Kingdom of Armenia in the Taurus Mountains of Cilicia is called "Lesser" Armenia in contrast to the "Greater Armenia" of the Armenian homeland to the northeast.
	www.friesian.com /armenia.htm (4265 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.
		Armenia's acting ambassador to the Vatican is Armen Sarkissian, who is also senior ambassador to England, Belgium and the European Union.
		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)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Patriarch and Patriarchate
		In 1781 Ignatius Giarve, Jacobite Bishop of Aleppo, was elected canonically Patriarch of Antioch.
		On the other hand, the existence of several Catholic patriarchs of the same see, for instance, the Melchite, Jacobite, Maronite, and Latin titulars of Antioch, is a concession to the national feeling of Eastern Christians, or, in the case of the Latin, a relic of the crusades that archæologically can hardly be justified.
		(6) the Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldees.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/11549a.htm (5471 words)

	Patriarch - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		See Patriarchs (Bible) for details about Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob of the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible.
		The Melkite Catholic Patriarchs of Antioch, head of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church
		The Patriarch of Babylon for the Chaldeans, head of the Chaldean Catholic Church
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Patriarch (695 words)

	patriarch - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
		In particular, the highest-ranking bishops in Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy, the Roman Catholic Church, and the Assyrian Church of the East are called patriarchs.
		In Mormonism, a patriarch is one who has been ordained to the office of Patriarch in the Melchizedek Priesthood.
		The Patriarch of Cilicia and the Middle East
	www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/patriarch (243 words)

	Caucasus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Lesser Armenia was between the Euphrates and the upper reaches of the Lycos, in Galatia and southern Pontus.
		An entirely different Lesser Armenia, often called Armenia Minor, was in southern Anatolia around the province of Cilicia.
		These rulers were essential district governors, and should be viewed alongside local nobility of the era, in Armenia (primarily Bagratunids and Mamikonians), and Azerbaijan (the Mihranids).
	www.hostkingdom.net /caucasus.html (1888 words)

	St Sarkis Services Page
		The King was cured, he accepted Christianity and decreed that henceforth in Armenia paganism shall be suppressed and Christianity shall be the state religion of the land.
		The need to keep the Armenian Church free of foreign influence was acutely felt towards the end of the 4th century; at this time the decline of the Arsacid Kingdom began and the political division of the country between the Byzantine Empire and that of Persia became a fact.
		The primary Catholical See is in Etchmiadzin, Armenia, the seat of the Catholicos of All Armenians; The second is in Antelias, Lebanon, the seat of the Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia.
	www.saintsarkis.org /Armenian_Church.htm (1802 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia â“ Free Online Encyclopedia for Reference, Research, Facts
		His rule is shared by the patriarchs of Jerusalem and Constantinople and by the catholicos of Sis (Cilicia).
		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.
		Armenia became Christian at the end of the 3d cent.
	www.encyclopedia.com /printable.aspx?id=1E1:armench (253 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.
		He is nominally in authority over the Armenian patriarchs of Jerusalem and Constantinople (that is, residing in Ýstanbul, Turkey).
	www.galenfrysinger.com /echmiadzin,_armenia.htm (341 words)

	Popes & Patriarchs of Constantinople, Jerusalem, Alexandria, Antioch, etc.
		the Patriarchs of Constantinople, Jerusalem, Alexandria, Antioch, Armenia, and the East; Archbishops of Canterbury and Prince Archbishops of Mainz, Trier, Cologne, and Salzburg
		The Patriarchate of Armenia was thus regarded by the Roman Church as heterodox.
		Similarly heterodox was the Patriarchate of the East, seated at the Sassanid capital of Ctesiphon, which had not accepted the decision of the Third Ecumenical Council.
	www.friesian.com /popes.htm (9005 words)

	DAILY BRUIN ONLINE
		The patriarch is akin to the pope for Roman Catholics and the Dalai Lama for Tibetan Buddhists.
		The patriarch is originally from Cilicia, where the last Armenian kingdom existed between the 11th and 14th centuries.
		While the original patriarch was from Cilicia, a second patriarch was elected in Etchmiadzin, the birthplace of Christianity in Armenia.
	www.dailybruin.ucla.edu /news/printable.asp?id=1572&date=10/20/2000 (673 words)

	Evangelism in the Early Armenian Evangelical Church (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The Patriarchs in those times, the amiras, and the faithful of the Armenian Church were engaged in a fierce struggle against the incursions of the agents of the Vatican and their Armenian Catholic followers and sympathizers.
		In Armenia and in the Caucasus, wandering minstrels, such as Minstrel Shirin, Minstrel Mayil, and others were instrumental in the dissemination of the good news of salvation with their odes.
		Evangelists in Armenia and in the Caucasus - Armenia and the Caucasus also had their reformists, even though they were not as vocal as the members of the Society of the Pious.
	www.netwiz.net /~cacc/c-eeaBND.html (5495 words)

	List of Catholicoi of Cilicia - Armeniapedia.org
		Although the see at Echmiadzin was restored in 1441, the Cilician patriarch still continued office until the present day.
		The see was vacant until 1058 when the patriarchate returned to Cilicia.
		Karekin II (1977-1995), became His Holiness, Karekin I the Catholicos of Armenia and of All Armenians from 1995-1999.
	www.armeniapedia.org /index.php?title=List_of_Catholicoi_of_Cilicia (164 words)

	Armenian_Catholic
		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.
		"The Patriarchs with their synods are the highest authority for all business of the patriarchate, including the right of establishing new eparchies and of nominating bishops of their rite within the territorial bounds of the patriarchate, without prejudice to the inalienable right of the Roman Pontiff to intervene in individual cases." -
		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)

	Brujula.Net - Your Latin Stating Point (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Jacob are referred to as the three patriarchs of Judaism, and the period in which they lived is called the Patriarchal Age.
		One of the patriarch's primary responsibilities is to give Patriarchal blessings.
		Church of the East and Abroad: The Catholicos Patriarch of Jerusalem
	www.brujula.net /english/wiki/Patriarch.html (163 words)

	Armenia - HOMILY OF JOHN PAUL II - Ecumenical Celebration in Cathedral of St. Gregory the Illuminator, Yerevan, - ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Armenia - HOMILY OF JOHN PAUL II - Ecumenical Celebration in Cathedral of St. Gregory the Illuminator, Yerevan, - September 26, 2001
		Holy Patriarchs and Doctors such as Saint Isaac the Great, Babghèn of Otmus, Zakary of Dzag, Nersès Šnorhali, Nersès of Lambron, Stephen of Salmast, James of Julfa and others were renowned for their zeal for the unity of the Church.
		There is a real and intimate unity between the Catholic Church and the Church of Armenia since both preserve apostolic succession and have valid sacraments, particularly Baptism and the Eucharist.
	www.catholicmission.org /MissionNews-092601-Armenia-Pope_Homily.html (1332 words)

	ACRAG
		In the late 1980s, as the world began to witness unprecedented developments and, particularly, as Armenia became increasingly the center of world attention, the need for a professional and innovative approach to the issues facing the Armenian people in general, and the Armenian Church in particular became apparent.
		While the independence of Armenia, in 1991, is the most historic event for the Armenian nation, from 1990 to 1995, a new era was opened in the life of the Church.
		Also diplomatic relations between Armenia and the Vatican are discussed, with the complete text of the Pope's address on the occasion of the opening of the Armenian Embassy in the Vatican.
	www.sain.org /window (1636 words)

	Church of Alexandria (Coptic) - OrthodoxWiki
		From that point onward, Alexandria would have two patriarchs: the "Melkite" or Imperial Patriarch, now officially known by the Egyptian State as the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria and all Africa [2], and the non-Chalcedonian national Egyptian one, now known as the Coptic Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and Apostolic See of St. Mark.
		There is a small Coptic Catholic Church (Eastern Rite Catholic) established in the 19th century and headed by a Patriarch of Alexandria in communion with the Pope of Rome.
		However, as applied to the Tewahedo Church of Ethiopia, which in 1959 was granted her first own Patriarch by Coptic Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria, the word Coptic can be considered a misnomer because it means Egyptian.
	www.orthodoxwiki.org /Church_of_Alexandria_(Coptic) (2518 words)

	The Heart of Armenia
		He himself does not fail to take precautions in the shape of a loaded revolver; the Church of Armenia is bound in self-defence to be a Church militant.
		We passed through Vagarshapat, now a dusty, straggling village, and the seat of the Russian district authorities, but the capital of Armenia at the time of King Tiridates, and finally came upon a broad space, at one end of which is a long, high wall of grey mud.
		In 1869 Migrtich was appointed Patriarch of Constantinople—a position of great political as well as ecclesiastical importance, for it implies the headship of the Armenian millet, or nationality, in Turkey.
	armenianhouse.org /villari/caucasus/heart-of-armenia.html (4385 words)

	Armenian Church
		At the end of the 3d century, the king of Armenia, Tiridates III, was converted to Christianity by Saint Gregory the Illuminator.
		His permanent residence is at Echmiadzin in the Republic of Armenia.
		1970); Sarkassian, Karekin, The Council of Chalcedon and the Armenian Church (1965); Zahirsky, Valerie, The Conversion of Armenia (1985).
	mb-soft.com /believe/txn/armenian.htm (474 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.
		Analysis of the Security Issues for Armenia within the Framework of the Karabakh Conflict.
	history.armenianhouse.org (538 words)

	Armenian Church
		The monastery has been the ecclesiastical metropolis of the Armenian nation since the4th century; it is said to be the oldest monastic foundation in the Christian world.The older branch of the Armenian church in the U.S., the Armenian Church of North America, has been under the jurisdiction of the See of Echmiadzin since 1887.
		Armenia has an extremelymountainous landscape, with an average elevation of about 1800 m (about 5900 ft).
		This monastery is in theAlaverdi region of Armenia
	www.fortunecity.com /business/napier/112/id87.htm (358 words)

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