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The Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem is the home of the Brotherhood of St. James, a monastic order of the Armenian Apostolic Church with about 60 members worldwide. Within the compound of the Patriarchate, also lie the private residences of Armenian families.
Vrtanes I, the third Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church (333–341), sent a letter with specific questions to Macarius, the Orthodox Bishop of Jerusalem (312-335/36), taken to Jerusalem by a delegation of Armenian priests on the occasion of the Encaenia, in dedication of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in September 335.
It is located near the Church of the Holy Archangels. It is the principal church of the Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem, also known as the Armenian Patriarchate of Saint James. In 1162, it was described as complete by John of Würzburg which Nurith Kenaan-Kedar uses to argue that it was built during the reign of Queen Melisende. [2]
Harootiun Vehabedian, Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem, 1900 (Library of Congress). In 638, the Armenian Apostolic Church began appointing its own bishop in Jerusalem, generally known as the Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem. The office has continued, with some interruptions, to this day.
Its members worry that the church is not equipped to protect their dwindling population and embattled convent from obsolescence and takeover. A tent in a parking lot. Walk through the narrow passageways of the Armenian Quarter, past a perpetually manned guard post and into an open lot with a towering pile of shrapnel crested with the Armenian flag.
Church of the Holy Sepulchre (1 C, 21 P) Pages in category "Armenian Apostolic churches in Jerusalem" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
The Church of the Holy Archangels (Armenian: Սրբոց Հրեշտակապետաց եկեղեցի, romanized: Srbots Hreštakapetats yekeğetsi), also known as Deir ez-Zeitun (دير الزيتون Dayr az-Zaytūn, "Monastery of the Olive Tree"), [2] is an Armenian Orthodox Christian church in the Armenian Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem.
Church of Our Lady of the Spasm – Armenian Catholic; Church of St. John the Baptist (Ein Karem, Jerusalem) Church of St. Peter in Gallicantu; Church of the Condemnation and Imposition of the Cross; Church of the Flagellation; Church of the Pater Noster; Church of the Visitation (Ein Karem, Jerusalem) Co-Cathedral of the Most Holy Name of Jesus