The Armenian church, also known as the Armenian Apostolic or Gregorian church, is an independent Christian church embracing the majority of the Armenian people. Membership is estimated at 1,600,000. 亚美尼亚教会，也称为该亚美尼亚使徒教会或阳历，是一个独立的基督教教堂拥抱，大多数的亚美尼亚人。成员估计在160.0万。
At the end of the 3d century, the king of Armenia, Tiridates III, was converted to Christianity by Saint Gregory the Illuminator.在去年底的三维世纪，国王的亚美尼亚， tiridates三，皈依了基督教，由圣格里高利照明灯。 Since the 5th century the Armenian church has embraced Monophysitism, a doctrine that states that Christ has a single human and divine nature. Adherence to Monophysitism has kept the Armenian church separated from other Christian groups. In other respects, most practices of the Armenian church resemble those of the Orthodox Church.自第五世纪的亚美尼亚教堂已接受monophysitism ，教条的国家基督有一个单一的人力和神性。 monophysitism坚持不断的亚美尼亚教堂脱离其他基督教团体。在其他方面，大部分的做法的亚美尼亚教堂相似那些东正教教堂。 The head of the church is called the supreme catholicos.元首的教会是所谓的最高catholicos 。 His permanent residence is at Echmiadzin in the Republic of Armenia.他的永久居住地是在埃奇米阿津在亚美尼亚共和国。
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Gulleserian,
Papken, Armenian Church, trans. gulleserian ， papken ，亚美尼亚教会，跨。
by Vartapet T. Poladian (1939; repr.
1970); Sarkassian, Karekin, The Council of Chalcedon and the Armenian Church
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(1985).由vartapet汤匙，波拉迪安（ 1939年; repr 。 1970年） ; sarkassian ， karekin
，安理会的迦克墩和亚美尼亚教堂（ 1965年） ; zahirsky ， （ Valerie ，转换，亚美尼亚（ 1985年） 。
The Armenian Church is one of the oldest branches of the Christian faith. The earliest authentic accounts of the introduction of Christianity into Armenia date from the apostolic work of St. Gregory the Illuminator, who, in 303, converted King Tiridates III and members of his court. 亚美尼亚教会是一个最古老的分支基督教信仰。最早的真确帐目引入基督教到亚美尼亚日期从使徒的工作，圣格里高利照明灯，谁，在303 ，转换国王tiridates三和他的法院。 Christianity was strengthened in Armenia by the translation of the Bible into the Armenian language by the Armenian monk and scholar St. Mesrob.基督教是加强在亚美尼亚由翻译圣经到亚美尼亚的语言由亚美尼亚僧侣和学者圣mesrob 。
Following the ecclesiastical controversy concerning the twofold nature of Christ, the Armenian Christians refused to accept the decisions of the Council of Chalcedon and formed a separate church, sometimes referred to as the Gregorian church. In 1439 a union with the Roman Catholic church was accepted by some members of the Armenian church.以下为教会争议的双重性质，基督，亚美尼亚基督教徒拒绝接受安理会的决定的迦克墩，并形成一个独立的教会，有时被称为阳历教会，在1439年1联盟与罗马天主教会接受一些成员对亚美尼亚教堂。 This was later repudiated, but a group of Armenian Catholics accept papal supremacy and the authority of the Catholic Armenian patriarchate of Sis or Cilicia (in Beirut, Lebanon), which was set up in 1742.这个后来被推翻，但一组亚美尼亚天主教徒接受教皇的霸权和权威，天主教亚美尼亚教会或SIS的西里西亚（在黎巴嫩贝鲁特） ，这是成立于1742年。 They use an Armenian rite.他们使用的一个亚美尼亚仪式。
The remaining larger portion of the Armenian church is headed by its catholicos, who resides at Echmiadzin, a monastery near Yerevan in Armenia.其余的较大部分的亚美尼亚教堂是为首的其catholicos ，谁居住在埃奇米阿津，附近的一个修道院在亚美尼亚埃里温。 He is nominally in authority over the Armenian patriarchs of Jerusalem and Constantinople (that is, residing in Ýstanbul, Turkey).他是在名义上的权力，亚美尼亚patriarchs耶路撒冷和君士坦丁堡（即是住在ýstanbul ，土耳其） 。 The monastery has been the ecclesiastical metropolis of the Armenian nation since the 4th century; it is said to be the oldest monastic foundation in the Christian world.宝莲寺一直是教会的大都会，亚美尼亚民族自第四世纪，它是说是最古老的寺院的基础上，在基督教世界。
The older branch of the Armenian church in the US, the Armenian Church of North America, has been under the jurisdiction of the See of Echmiadzin since 1887.老科的亚美尼亚教会在美国， 亚美尼亚教会的北美，一直管辖下的该见的埃奇米阿津自1887年。 In 1957 this diocese joined the National Council of Churches.在1957年这个教区加入全国基督教协进会。 In the early 1990s the diocese reported about 14,000 confirmed members in 72 churches.在20世纪90年代初教区报道，约1.4万成员证实，在72个教会。 Another diocese, which left the parent American body in 1932, recognized the authority of the See of Cilicia in 1957.另一个教区，留下的母公司美国机构在1932年，公认的权威，该见的奇里乞亚于1957年。 Known as the Armenian Apostolic Church of America, it reported a confirmed membership of 30,000 in 32 churches.众所周知，由于亚美尼亚使徒教会，美国，它的报告证实，成员3.0万在32个教会。
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