Armenie Apostolic Kirk

The Armenie Apostolic Kirk ([Հայ Առաքելական Սուրբ Եկեղեցի, Hay Aṙak̕elakan Surp Yekeġetsi] error: {{lang-xx}}: text has italic markup (help), offeecially [Հայաստանեայց Առաքելական Սուրբ Եկեղեցի, Hayastaniayts Aṙak̕elakan Surp Yekeġetsi] error: {{lang-xx}}: text has italic markup (help)) is the warld's auldest naitional kirk.^[2][3][4][5] It is pairt o Oriental Orthodoxy an is ane o the maist auncient Christian commonties.^[6] Armenie wis the first kintra to adopt Christianity as its official religion in AD 301, in establishing this kirk.^[7] The Armenie Apostolic Orthodox Kirk claims tae trace its origins to the missions o Apostles Bartholomew an Thaddeus in the 1st century an is a early centre o Christianity.

Armenian Apostolic Kirk
Offeecial staundart o the Catholicos o Aw Armenies o the Armenie Apostolic Kirk.
Foonder	Apostles Bartholomew an Thaddeus
Unthirldom	Apostolic Era
Recognition	Oriental Orthodoxy
Primate	Karekin II
Headquarters	Mither See o Holy Etchmiadzin, Vagharshapat, Armenie
Territory	Armenie, Nagorno-Karabakh
Possessions	Roushie, Iraq, Georgie, Fraunce, the Unitit States, Iran, Lebanon, Sirie, Jordan, Israel an Palestine, Turkey, Egyp, Canadae, Australie, Cyprus, Greece, Bulgarie, Belgium, Estonie, Latvie, Lithuanie, Fraunce, Unitit Kinrick, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Romanie, Swaden, Swisserland, Argentinae, Albanie, Brazil, Uruguay, Ukraine, Belaroushie, Ethiopie, an mony ithers.
Leid	Clessical Armenie
Members	10,000,000[1]
Wabsteid	Armenian Apostolic Church Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin Armenian Catholicossate of the Great House of Cilicia Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem

It is whiles referred tae as the Gregorian Kirk but this name isna preferred bi the kirk itsel, as it views the Apostles Bartholomew an Thaddeus as its foonders, an St. Gregory the Illuminator as merely the first offeecial govrenor o the kirk.

Notes

1. http://66.208.37.78/ Archived 2012-04-29 at the Wayback Machine
2. It wis the first naition tae adopt Christianity as its offeecial releegion. The Journal of Ecclesiastical History – Page 268 by Cambridge University Press, Gale Group, C.W. Dugmore
3. "Archived copy". Archived frae the original on 29 Mey 2012. Retrieved 29 Apryle 2014.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
4. The Armenian Massacres, 1894–1896: 1894–1896 : U.S. media testimony – Page 131 by A. Dzh. (Arman Dzhonovich) Kirakosian
5. "Archived copy". Archived frae the original on 27 Julie 2011. Retrieved 29 Apryle 2014.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
6. The Antiquities of the Christian Church – Page 466 by Johann Christian Wilhelm Augusti, Georg Friedrich Heinrich Rheinwald, Carl Christian Friedrich Siegel
7. Grousset, René (1947). Histoire de l'Arménie (1984 ed.). Payot. p. 122.. Estimated dates vary frae 284 tae 314. Garsoïan (op.cit. p.82), follaein the research o Ananian, favours the latter.