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The Armenian Apostolic Church is one of a few apostolic churches in the world to have a democratic system ; the people decide if they want to keep priests in their churches and may ask for different ones, as do some other ecclesiastical constitutions, such as Baptists and other Congregational churches.
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Armenian and Apostolic
All churches apart from the Armenian Apostolic Church must register with the government, and proselytizing was forbidden by law, though since 1997 the government has pursued more moderate policies.
The Books of the Bible are listed differently in the canons of Judaism and the Catholic, Protestant, Greek Orthodox, Slavonic Orthodox, Coptic, Georgian Orthodox, Armenian Apostolic, Syriac, Ethiopian and Eritrean Orthodox churches, although there is substantial overlap.
The Oriental Orthodox communion comprises six groups: Syriac Orthodox, Coptic Orthodox, Ethiopian Orthodox, Eritrean Orthodox, Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church ( India ) and Armenian Apostolic churches.
* Constantine II the Woolmaker ( died 1322 ), Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church
Under the status quo, the Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholic, and Armenian Apostolic Churches all have rights to the interior of the tomb, and all three communities celebrate the Divine Liturgy or Holy Mass there daily.
The primary custodians are the Eastern Orthodox, Armenian Apostolic, and Roman Catholic Churches, with the Greek Orthodox Church having the lion's share.
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The Armenian Apostolic Church, like the Roman Catholic, uses unleavened bread.
Ezekiel is commemorated on August 28 on the Calendar of Saints of the Armenian Apostolic Church.
, or, or ) ( c. 257 – c. 331 ) is the patron saint and first official head of the Armenian Apostolic Church.
The newly built cathedral, the Mother Church in Echmiadzin became and remains the spiritual and cultural center of Armenian Christianity and center of the Armenian Apostolic Church.
* Armenian Apostolic Church
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He is commemorated with the other Minor prophets in the Calendar of saints of the Armenian Apostolic Church on July 31.
In 2011, he was commemorated with the other Minor prophets in the Calendar of saints of the Armenian Apostolic Church on February 8.
Irenaeus also wrote The Demonstration of the Apostolic Preaching, an Armenian copy of which was discovered in 1904.
** Christmas ( Armenian Apostolic Church )
The saint's left hand is allegedly preserved in the Armenian Apostolic Church of St. John at Chinsurah, West Bengal, where each year on " Chinsurah Day " in January it blesses the Armenians of Calcutta.
He is commemorated as one of the Twelve Minor Prophets in the Calendar of saints of the Armenian Apostolic Church on July 31.
There are Armenians, mostly belonging to the Armenian Apostolic Church.
He is commemorated as one of the Holy Forefathers in the Calendar of Saints of the Armenian Apostolic Church on July 30.
In the Armenian Apostolic Church, the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church unleavened bread is used for communion ( called qddus qurban in the lithurgical language of the Eritreans and Ethiopians Ge ' ez ).
He is commemorated with the other minor prophets in the Calendar of saints of the Armenian Apostolic Church on July 31.
He is celebrated on February 28 in the Syriac and Malankara Churches, and with the other Minor prophets in the Calendar of saints of the Armenian Apostolic Church on July 31.
Armenian and Church
A number of prayers, and about thirty of the canons of the Armenian Church are ascribed to Gregory the Illuminator.
* Armenian Catholic Church
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M. Kegham -- the name is a pseudynom -- was a teacher in Bucharest and a member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation ( ARF ) -- two reasons the Communists put him away when they arrived in 1945.
One, the ABCDE order later used in Phoenician, has continued with minor changes in Hebrew, Greek, Armenian, Gothic, Cyrillic, and Latin ; the other, HMĦLQ, was used in southern Arabia and is preserved today in Ethiopic.
It is a peninsula bound by the Black Sea to the north, Georgia to the north-east, the Armenian Highland to the east, Mesopotamia to the south-east, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and the Aegean Sea to the west.
Under this definition, Anatolia is bounded to the East by the Armenian Highland, and the Euphrates before that river bends to the southeast to enter Mesopotamia.
The Armenian Government is working toward closing the Armenian Nuclear Power Plant as soon as alternative energy sources are identified.
To the southwest of the range is the Armenian Plateau, which slopes southwestward toward the Araks River on the Turkish border.
On the Armenian Plateau, the mean midwinter temperature is, and the mean midsummer temperature exceeds.
A new party, the Republic Party, is headed by ex-Prime Minister Aram Sargsyan, brother of Vazgen Sargsyan, and has become the primary voice of the opposition, which also includes the Armenian Communist Party, the National Unity party of Artashes Geghamyan, and elements of the former Ter-Petrosyan government.
New sectors, such as precious stone processing and jewelry making and communication technologyArmentel ( left fromt the USSR era ), which is not even owned by the government or Armenian investors.
Despite marked progress, Armenia still suffers from a large trade imballance and is still largely dependent upon foreign aid and remittances from Armenian nationals working abroad, and members of the diaspora donating aid through non-governmental organizations ( NGOs ) such as churchES.
The Armenian economy's competitiveness is low and stagnating according to the Global Competitiveness Index, in which Armenia's ranking slipped from 80th out of 132 countries in 2006-2007 index to 93rd out of 131 countries in the 2007-2008 index ( just below Libya, Namibia, Georgia, Serbia and Pakistan ).
Ara Vartanian, the chairman of the Armenian Trade and Industry Chamber, thinks that this measure is a far more objective indicator of the tourist influx into the country.
The single stated goal of the " Armenian Compact " is " the reduction of rural poverty through a sustainable increase in the economic performance of the agricultural sector.
With the Armenian government needing more anti-crisis loans from the World Bank and other foreign donors, the debt-to-GDP ratio is expected to exceed 40 percent in 2010.
Armenia's main rail and road border-crossing with Georgia ( at ) is along the Debed river near the Armenian town of Bagratashen and the Georgian town of Sadakhlo.
As of October 2008, the Armenian government is considering implementing an ambitious project to build a railway to Iran.
According to an OSCE survey, a typical Armenian migrant worker is a married man aged between 41 and 50 years who " began looking for work abroad at the age of 32-33.
The Armenian Government is working toward closing the Armenian Nuclear Power Plant and has already made an agreement with Russian " businessmen " about the construction and operation and ownage of a new Nuclear power plant.
In August 2002, the Armenian government sold an 80 percent stake in the Armenian Electricity Network ( AEN ) to Midland Resources, a British offshore-registered firm which is said to have close Russian connections.
* 1909 – A massacre is organized by Ottoman Empire against Armenian population of Cilicia.
In the Western Armenian language, the ablative case is rendered by the suffix-e ( indefinite ) or-en ( definite ).
In Eastern Armenian, the suffix-its is used for both definite and indefinite nouns.
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