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The Armenian Apostolic Church (Armenian: Հայ Առաքելական Եկեղեցի, romanized: Hay Aṙak'elakan Yekeghetsi) is the national church of Armenia. Part of Oriental Orthodoxy, it is one of the most ancient Christian institutions.
Armenian Apostolic Church, independent Oriental Orthodox Christian church and the national church of Armenia. According to tradition, Armenia was evangelized by the apostles Bartholomew and Thaddeus.
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The mainstream Oriental Orthodox are generally autocephalous national churches, namely the Coptic Church; the Syriac Orthodox Church along with its constituent autonomous Jacobite Syrian Church in India; the Armenian Apostolic Church, comprising the autocephalous Catholicosate of Etchmiadzin in Armenia and the Catholicosate of Cilicia in the ...
Today the Armenian Church is numbered among the “Oriental Orthodox” communities, which include the Coptic, Ethiopian, and Syrian Orthodox churches. Collectively these churches are also often called “Non-Chalcedonian” churches.
The official name of the Armenian Church is Armenian Apostolic Orthodox Holy Church. ‘Armenian’ denotes its ethnicity; it is the Church of Armenia and Armenians. ‘Apostolic’ confirms that it was founded by St. Thaddeus and St. Bartholomew, designated as the First Illuminators of Armenia , two of the twelve apostles of our Lord and ...
Feb 22, 2015 · The Church of Armenia, sometimes called the Armenian Apostolic Church or the Armenian Orthodox Church is one of the Oriental Orthodox churches. It separated from the Eastern Orthodox Church in AD 506, after the Council of Chalcedon (AD 451).
It was the first canonization by the Armenian Apostolic Church in four hundred years. Modern day. The Oriental Orthodox communion comprises six groups: Coptic Orthodox, Syriac Orthodox, Ethiopian Orthodox, Eritrean Orthodox, Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, and Armenian Apostolic churches.
