Armenian Apostolic Church, Dioceses of America

Armenian Apostolic Church, Dioceses of America

630 2nd Ave
New York, NY 10016-4885
United States

Attesting Officer
Karine Abalyan
Public Relations Coordinator


40.7451594, -73.975251


The Armenian Apostolic Church was established at the foot of the biblical Mount Ararat in the ancient land of Armenia, where two of Christ's Holy Apostles, Saints Thaddeus and Bartholomew, preached Christianity in the 1st century.
In A.D. 301, the kingdom of Armenia became history's first Christian nation, when king Tiridates III was baptized by Saint Gregory the Illuminator. Gregory became the patron saint of Armenia, the first in a line of 132 Catholicoi of all Armenians, and founder, in A.D. 303, of the historic Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, which still serves as the central, pre-eminent shrine of the worldwide Armenian Church. The present day Catholicos of All Armenians is His Holiness Karekin II.
In 1891, in fulfillment of a petition to Holy Etchmiadzin, Armenian immigrants to America built and witnessed the consecration of the New World's first Armenian Church, in Worcester, Massachusetts. In 1898, the 125th Catholicos of All Armenians, Mgrdich Khrimian, established a diocesan jurisdiction for the burgeoning communities in North and South America.
Today, the Diocese of the Armenian Church of America (Eastern) administers parishes in the eastern half of the U.S., with separate dioceses governing parishes in California (the Western Diocese, established 1927), Canada (the Canadian Diocese, established 1984), and South America (various jurisdictions and dates). Other centers of major significance for the Armenian Apostolic Church are the Catholicate of Cilicia (located in Lebanon), the Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem, and the Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople.


Full Communicants Average Attendance Other Members Total Inclusive Members Total Churches Membership Calculation Method
2010
65,000
0
65,000
81
2009
65,000
0
65,000
63
2008
650,000
0
650,000
63
2007
650,000
0
650,000
72
1991
414,000
0
0
414,000
72
1979
0
450,000
66
1978
326,500
326,500
57
1972
0
372,000
58
1971
300,000
300,000
62
1969
0
300,000
59
Serving Churches Retired Other Service to the Church Total Clergy
2010
75
70
2009
28
17
11
56
2008
28
17
11
56
2007
49
0
70
1991
49
0
70
1979
45
61
1978
52
60
1972
62
67
1971
0
71
1969
45
64
Total Schools Staff Pupils Total Individuals
2010
40
485
2,020
2,505
2009
40
515
2,037
2,552
2008
40
515
2,037
2,552
1978
57
7,000
1971
90
8,000
1969
52
7,650
Total Benevolences Total Financials Total Giving Local Expenses Method
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