His Holiness, the Catholicos of Armenia and of All Armenians (plural Catholicoi, due to its The Greek language (Greek Ελληνικά, IPA – Hellenic) is an Indo-European language with a documented history of some 3,000 years. ...Greek origin) is the head Bishop (disambiguation). ...bishop of The text or formatting below is generated by a template which has been proposed for deletion. ...Armenia's dominant church, the The Armenian Apostolic Church, sometimes called the Armenian Orthodox Church is one of the original churches, having separated from the then_still_united Roman Catholic/Byzantine Orthodox church in 506, after the Council of Chalcedon (see Oriental Orthodoxy). ...Armenian Apostolic Church. That This article is about the Christian buildings of worship. ...church is one of the The term Oriental Orthodoxy refers to the churches of Eastern Christian traditions that keeps the faith of only the first three ecumenical councils of the undivided Church _ the councils of Nicea, Constantinople and Ephesus. ...Oriental Orthodox churches that separated from the rest of the For other uses of the term Christian, see Christian (disambiguation). ...Christian church in For other uses, see number 451. ...451 as a result of the decisions of the The Council of Chalcedon was an ecumenical council that took place from October 8_November 1, 451 A.D at Chalcedon, a city of Bithynia in Asia Minor. ...Council of Chalcedon.
He is also sometimes called the "Catholicos of Categories: Stub | Tourist attractions in Armenia | Towns and Cities in Armenia | World Heritage Sites in Armenia ...Etchmiadzin" after the city that is his A see (from the Latin word sedem, meaning seat) is the throne (cathedra) of a bishop. ...see.
See also
This is a list of Catholicoi of Armenia: head bishops of the Armenian Apostolic Church. ...List of Catholicoi of Armenia
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.
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.
Feeds |
Contact