Holy Etchmiadzin

Holy Etchmiadzin

The Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin is the preeminent center of authority in the worldwide Armenian Apostolic Church. Located near the capital of Yerevan in the Republic of Armenia, it is composed of:

  1. The Mother Cathedral of the entire Armenian Church;
  2. The monastery and monastic brotherhood;
  3. The residence of the Catholicos of All Armenians;
  4. Various religious and cultural institutions, such as the Kevorkian Theological Seminary and a museum

 

The cathedral dates back to the 4th century, and is reckoned the oldest Christian cathedral in world. Although the current sanctuary was erected in the 1600s, remnants of the 4th-century altar have been unearthed beneath the present structure.

Holy Etchmiadzin became the seat of the Catholicate of the entire Armenian nation in the 4th century, following the conversion of King Tiridates III to Christianity by St. Gregory the Illuminator in AD 301. The current Catholicos of All Armenians is His Holiness Karekin II.

Soon after Armenia’s conver­sion to Christianity, St. Gregory had a vision of the Son of God appearing as a heroic figure of light surrounded by a mighty angelic host. Christ struck the ground with a golden ham­mer, indicating the place where the Mother Cathedral of the new Christian nation was to be established. The name Etchmiadzin—”where the Only Begotten descended”—refers to this episode.

More information can be found at www.armenianchurch.org.

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Saturday, July 19 at 7:30pm
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We present to your attention the book by Vadim Arutyunov "Notes of a Wandering Armenian". This is a future three-volume work, the beginning of which has already been laid, and the first volume of which will be presented to the reader.

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