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The Armenian Church, Holy See of Cilicia is an independent Oriental Orthodox church. Since 1930, its headquarters is located in Antelias, Lebanon and its ministry covers most of the Armenian communities in the Armenian Diaspora.
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Armenia Major was in a relatively peaceful time and it was considered an appropriate time to return to Etchmiadzin. The Catholicos, Krikor Mousabegyantz, did not wish to abandon Sis at this time since there was a large Armenian population in Cilicia.
The Armenian Catholicosate of Cilicia is rightly described as a dynamic and committed witness to the Gospel. This witness has incorporated various dimensions and domains of the life of the Armenian Church and people. It is important to identify some of the major ones.
The paper focuses on three moments in the history of Cilicia and its Catholicosate between 1375 and 1915. They relate to the period after the fall of the last Armenian kingdom, the reestablishment of the Catholicosate in Echmiadzin, and the crises between the patriarchal sees of Sis, Echmiadzin, and Constantinople.
The Catholicosate of the Great House of Cilicia played an important role in the life of the Armenians of Cilicia. The history of the Catholicosate is divided into two historical periods: “Cilician” and “Diasporian”.
The Armenian Catholicosate of Cilicia is rightly described as a dynamic and committed witness to the Gospel. This witness has incorporated various dimensions and domains of the life of the Armenian Church and people. It is important to identify some of the major ones.
Armenian Catholicosate of the Great House of Cilicia. During World War I (1915-1918), one and a half million Armenians were massacred by the Turks. In 1921, when the French forces evacuated Cilicia, a second wave of massacres ordered by Kemalist Turkey took the lives of another three hundred thousand Armenians.
