Armenian Catholic Church
Also known as Armenian Church
one of the Eastern particular churches sui iuris of the Catholic Church
Key facts
- Classification
- Eastern Catholic
- Theology
- Catholic theology
- Polity
- Episcopal
- Pope
- Leo XIV
- Patriarch
- Raphaël Bedros XXI Minassian
- Region
- Armenian diaspora
- Language
- Armenian
- Liturgy
- Armenian Rite
- Headquarters
- Cathedral of St Elias and St Gregory the Illuminator , Beirut , Lebanon
- Founder
- Abraham Petros I Ardzivian
- Origin
- 1742 , Ottoman Empire (modern Turkey )
- Separated from
- Armenian Apostolic Church
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The Armenian Catholic Church is an Eastern Catholic particular church sui iuris of the Catholic Church. It accepts the leadership of the bishop of Rome, and is therefore in full communion with the universal Catholic Church, including the Latin Church and the 22 other Eastern Catholic Churches. The Armenian Catholic Church is regulated by Eastern canon law, summed up in the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches.
The head of the sui iuris Armenian Catholic Church is the Armenian Catholic patriarch of Cilicia, whose main cathedral and de facto archiepiscopal see is the Cathedral of Saint Elias and Saint Gregory the Illuminator, in Beirut, Lebanon.