The Armenian Catholic Church

Denomination·Founded 1742 CE·Figures vary widely by source and by whether the diaspora is counted by baptism or by practice; no single number is reliable enough to state here.

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Rite of The Armenian Catholic Church

The Badarak, in the Armenian rite.

The liturgy is the Armenian one — the same text, the same music, the same unleavened bread and unmixed wine as the Apostolic church uses — with the pope named in the intercessions. An Apostolic Armenian walking into an Armenian Catholic church would recognise nearly everything.

⏱ Weekly on Sunday, and on the Armenian feasts◌ The parish, in Beirut, Aleppo, Yerevan, Paris, Los Angeles
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What happensThe Badarak in Classical Armenian, with unleavened bread and unmixed wine, in the Armenian rite
What it needsAn Armenian-rite priest and a congregation that still follows the language
What it aims atTo pray as Armenians and commune as Catholics, without choosing
Understanding it — context, not catechism: how this rite is held

The Armenian rite is one of the most distinctive in Christendom, and the Catholic version of it is nearly identical to the Apostolic — the same Badarak, the same unleavened bread and unmixed wine, the same eight-mode chant, the same calendar with Christmas on 6 January. Latin additions accumulated in the nineteenth century and have largely been removed. The practical difficulty for the church is demographic rather than liturgical: parishes are small and dispersed, priests are few, and in many cities the Armenian Catholic congregation is a handful of families attached to a Latin or Melkite parish.

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