Musso
01-18-2015, 02:59 PM
This thread is dedicated to the discussion and information about the Armenian Apostolic Church, the main church of all Armenians and the main religion of Armenia. The Church plays a crucial role in the identity and unity of Armenians around the world - mass in all Armenian Apostolic Churches are conducted in Classical Armenian, which means that from Armenian churches from New Zealand to Armenia to California, all Armenians participate in the same mass, in the same language. The Church unites our diaspora and country.
Is Armenian Apostolic Church Eastern Orthodox like Russian or Georgian Orthodox?
No. Armenian Apostolic Church is part of the Oriental Orthodoxy rite. Oriental Orthodoxy is the faith of those Orthodox Eastern Christian churches which recognize only the first three ecumenical councils—the First Council of Nicaea, the First Council of Constantinople and the First Council of Ephesus. They rejected the definitions of the Council of Chalcedon held in AD 451 in Chalcedon.
The Oriental Orthodox communion comprises six churches: Coptic, Ethiopian, Eritrean, Syriac, Malankara Syrian (Indian Orthodox Church) and Armenian Apostolic churches.
Oriental Orthodoxy Churches are non-Chalcedonian. Non-Chalcedonians hold the position of Miaphysitism (often called amongst Western and Eastern Christians monophysitism): that in the one person of Jesus Christ, divinity and humanity are united in one nature, the two being united without separation, without confusion, and without alteration.
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Armenia was the first country to adopt Christianity as its official religion in AD 301, in establishing this church
Catholicos of All Armenians, Karekin II
http://www.armenianchurch.org/resources/karekin-ii-e1268708972633.jpg
Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin:
http://ejmiatsin.am/uploads/posts/2012-03/1330949890_1.jpg
http://anitour.am/media/mediaelement/481/800px-Ejmiadzin_indoor1.jpg
Is Armenian Apostolic Church Eastern Orthodox like Russian or Georgian Orthodox?
No. Armenian Apostolic Church is part of the Oriental Orthodoxy rite. Oriental Orthodoxy is the faith of those Orthodox Eastern Christian churches which recognize only the first three ecumenical councils—the First Council of Nicaea, the First Council of Constantinople and the First Council of Ephesus. They rejected the definitions of the Council of Chalcedon held in AD 451 in Chalcedon.
The Oriental Orthodox communion comprises six churches: Coptic, Ethiopian, Eritrean, Syriac, Malankara Syrian (Indian Orthodox Church) and Armenian Apostolic churches.
Oriental Orthodoxy Churches are non-Chalcedonian. Non-Chalcedonians hold the position of Miaphysitism (often called amongst Western and Eastern Christians monophysitism): that in the one person of Jesus Christ, divinity and humanity are united in one nature, the two being united without separation, without confusion, and without alteration.
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Armenia was the first country to adopt Christianity as its official religion in AD 301, in establishing this church
Catholicos of All Armenians, Karekin II
http://www.armenianchurch.org/resources/karekin-ii-e1268708972633.jpg
Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin:
http://ejmiatsin.am/uploads/posts/2012-03/1330949890_1.jpg
http://anitour.am/media/mediaelement/481/800px-Ejmiadzin_indoor1.jpg