Armenian Rite

Since the 18th century, there has also been a significant number of Armenian Rite Catholics.

The Armenian Rite is an independent liturgy.

The church uses the Armenian Rite and the Armenian language for its services.

The latter covers other Catholics in Eastern Europe of the Armenian rite.

The Armenian rite developed from the Armenian Tradition.

They worship according to the Armenian Rite, but they have united with the Catholic Church under the primacy of the Pope.

The following year, he became administrator of the Ordinariate for Catholics of Armenian Rite in Romania.

Many Catholics adopted the Armenian Rite until the institution of religious liberty in 1905, which allowed them to return to the Byzantine Rite.

Other rumours maintain that Cardinal Grégoire-Pierre Agagianian, a prominent Armenian rite cardinal, was also elected Pope in 1958.

The church is one of the Eastern Rite Catholic churches and uses the Armenian Rite and Armenian language in the liturgy.

The Armenian Rite, used mainly by the Armenian Apostolic Church, uses currently the Anaphora of St. Athanasius.

Members of the Armenian community who adhere to the Armenian Rite are grouped in the Roman Catholic-led Gherla Vicariate.

Georgians of Armenian Rite are in the care of the Ordinariate for Armenian Catholics in Eastern Europe, which was established on 13 July 1991.

Smaller groups of Christians belong to the Syrian, Latin and Armenian rites of the Roman Catholic Church and to the Armenian Orthodox Community.

It applies as well to united Catholics of the Greco-Ruthenian rite in Lwow, and Przemysl, and, to the Armenian rite in Lwow.

The Armenians maintained their autonomous structure, with the Roman Catholic Church appointing their spiritual leader (see Ordinariate for Catholics of Armenian Rite in Romania).

On their behalf - whether they be of the Latin, Byzantine or Armenian Rite - I express the fervent hope that they be able to practice freely their religious life.

Nechan Karakéhéyan ICPB, Titular Archbishop of Adana and Apostolic professor of Greek (Armenian Rite)

The main liturgical language for Masses is Russian, but services are also held in Polish, English, French, Spanish, Korean, Latin and Armenian (based on an Armenian Rite).

The use of bishop's mitre and of unleavened bread, is reminiscent of the influence Western missionaries once had upon both the miaphysite Orthodox Armenians as well as upon the Armenian Rite Catholics.

The visit that ended with this gesture of unity also began with one - a solemn Armenian rite liturgy drawing more than 3,000 Armenian worshipers to the Cathedral of St. John the Divine on Feb. 5.

Accordingly, some of these Georgians, clergy as well as laity, adopted the Armenian Rite and joined the Armenian Catholic diocese of Artvin, which had been set up in Russian Transcaucasia in 1850.

The Ordinariate for Catholics of Armenian Rite in Romania is nowadays centered on Gherla, and is placed under the jurisdiction of the Romanian Roman-Catholic Church archbishops of Alba Iulia.

Father Zaleski, who is related to the Catholic Armenian Rite archbishop of Lviv, Izaak Mikolaj Isakowicz, also promotes the erection of a monument in Krakow to commemorate Armenian Genocide.

Unlike the Byzantine Church, churches of the Armenian rite are usually devoid of icons and have a curtain concealing the priest and the altar from the people during parts of the liturgy, an influence from early apostolic times.