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There are some 30,000 Armenian Catholics in the eparchy, the headquarters of which are in Paris. Apart from the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Paris, the eparchy has six churches: in Arnouville-lès-Gonesse , Lyon , Marseille , Saint-Chamond , Sèvres and Valence .
Since then, the office of Apostolic Visitor in Western Europe of the Armenian Catholics (for countries without proper Armenian jurisdictions) is vested in the Parisian see. Statistics. As per 2014, it pastorally served 30,000 Armenian Catholics in 6 parishes with 7 priests (1 diocesan, 6 religious) and 8 lay religious (6 brothers, 2 sisters).
Sep 24, 2021 · Pope to new Armenian Patriarch: closeness to Syria, Lebanon. In a letter, Pope Francis has granted the “Ecclesiastica Communio” to the new Patriarch of the Armenian Catholic Church, who was elected on September 23. The Pope received His Beatitude Raphaël Bedros XXI Minassian of Cilicia in the Vatican on Friday.
Believers of the Armenian Catholic Church, one of the Eastern Catholic Churches, are dispersed throughout the world. Their most numerous, and at the same time probably least known, group lives in Armenia and Georgia, especially in the provinces of Shirak and Lori (Armenia) and Samtskhe-Javakheti (Georgia). Scattered in a 200-kilometre-long belt ...
Feb 28, 2024 · Pope Francis also urged the Armenian bishops to remain close to those they serve. “In a world so full of isolation and loneliness,” he said, “we must ensure that those entrusted to our care feel the closeness of the Good Shepherd.”. This includes, he noted, priests, especially young ones, who need to “feel close to their Bishops.”.
At the same time, we have our eparchy for the Armenian Catholics in Armenia, and we have a seminary over there, and there are 37 Armenian Catholic villages in northern Armenia. A lot of the 6,000 or 5,000 Armenian military that were killed during the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war are from these Armenian Catholic villages.
Sep 7, 2015 · Vatican City, Sep 7, 2015 / 10:34 am. Concelebrating Mass with the Armenian Patriarch of Cilicia on Monday, Pope Francis recalled how persecution has been constant in the Church, from the time of ...
