Armenian Apostolic Kirk | |
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Offeecial staundart o the Catholicos o Aw Armenies o the Armenie Apostolic Kirk. | |
Foonder | Apostles Bartholomew an Thaddeus |
Unthirldom | Apostolic Era |
Recognition | Oriental Orthodoxy |
Primate | Karekin II |
Headquarters | Mither See o Holy Etchmiadzin, Vagharshapat, Armenie |
Territory | Armenie, Nagorno-Karabakh |
Possessions | Roushie, Iraq, Georgie, Fraunce, the Unitit States, Iran, Lebanon, Sirie, Jordan, Israel an Palestine, Turkey, Egyp, Canadae, Australie, Cyprus, Greece, Bulgarie, Belgium, Estonie, Latvie, Lithuanie, Fraunce, Unitit Kinrick, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Romanie, Swaden, Swisserland, Argentinae, Albanie, Brazil, Uruguay, Ukraine, Belaroushie, Ethiopie, an mony ithers. |
Leid | Clessical Armenie |
Members | 10,000,000[1] |
Wabsteid |
The Armenie Apostolic Kirk ([Հայ Առաքելական Սուրբ Եկեղեցի, Hay Aṙak̕elakan Surp Yekeġetsi] error: ((lang-xx)): text has italic markup (help), offeecially [Հայաստանեայց Առաքելական Սուրբ Եկեղեցի, Hayastaniayts Aṙak̕elakan Surp Yekeġetsi] error: ((lang-xx)): text has italic markup (help)) is the warld's auldest naitional kirk.[2][3][4][5] It is pairt o Oriental Orthodoxy an is ane o the maist auncient Christian commonties.[6] Armenie wis the first kintra to adopt Christianity as its official religion in AD 301, in establishing this kirk.[7] The Armenie Apostolic Orthodox Kirk claims tae trace its origins to the missions o Apostles Bartholomew an Thaddeus in the 1st century an is a early centre o Christianity.
It is whiles referred tae as the Gregorian Kirk but this name isna preferred bi the kirk itsel, as it views the Apostles Bartholomew an Thaddeus as its foonders, an St. Gregory the Illuminator as merely the first offeecial govrenor o the kirk.