The Armenian Apostolic Church

Denomination·Founded 301 CE·est. ~9 million worldwide, most of them outside Armenia; diaspora figures are estimates rather than counts.

Judaism → Christianity → Oriental Orthodoxy → The Armenian Apostolic Church

The Mother See of Holy EtchmiadzinEastern Diocese of the Armenian Church of America

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Rites & Ritual

what its people do — and when All 1 →
Yearly
The blessing of the Holy Muron. Every seven years the Catholicos boils and blesses the chrism at Etchmiadzin, stirring in muron from the previous blessing so that each batch carries some of the last. It is distributed to every Armenian parish in the world, and every baptism and chrismation for the next seven years uses it. The most recent blessing was on 28 September 2024. When Once every seven years, at the Mother SeeWho The Catholicos of All Armenians with the bishops; the whole church receives the result Go deeper — context →

Numbers count Panfaith activity only — never real-world adherence.

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