Armenian Evangelical Church

The Armenian Evangelical Church (Armenian Հայաստանեայց Աւետարանական Եկեղեցի, transliteration: Hayastaneayts ' Awyetaranakan Yekeghets'i ) is an Armenian-, with the Armenian Diaspora worldwide spread Protestant church. It was created in 1846 in Constantinople Opel by elimination of the Armenian Apostolic Church.

Formation

In the 19th century began in Constantinople Opel a religious movement among the Armenian Christians who relied mainly on the study of the Bible as the source of religion and soon stated contradictions between the biblical texts and the practice of the Armenian Apostolic Church. This movement was in the 1820s, supported by translations of the Bible into Turkish and neuarmenischer language; from around 1830 encouraged missionaries from the U.S. evangelical reform movement among the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, also by working in primary schools. 1828 Theological Seminary was founded under the Armenian Patriarchate, which was to train especially qualified clerics for the Armenian Apostolic Church, under the direction Krikor Peshdimaljian. In this seminar, the Reformation ideas spread so far that Patriarch Stepanos III. Zacharian was forced to fight the movement, which had now established a " Pietist Union ". Patriarch Matheos II finally excommunicated in 1846 the followers of the Pietist movement, followed by 1 July of the year 37 men and three women founded by a creed into twelve sections, the Armenian Evangelical Church, which as early as the following year by the authorities of the Sublime Porte own Millet was recognized. With the Armenian diaspora, the Church spread worldwide.

The church today

Today there are 90 Armenian Protestant communities in the states of Egypt, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Germany, France, Georgia, Greece, Iraq, Iran, Canada, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Uruguay, the United States and in UK and in Cyprus. You are in seven churches organized (date in brackets):

  • Union of the Armenian Evangelical Churches in the Near East ( UAECNE, 1924)
  • Armenian Evangelical Union of North America ( AEUNA, 1971)
  • Armenian Evangelical Union of France ( AEUF, 1924)
  • Union of the Armenian Evangelical Churches in Armenia ( 1995)
  • Armenian Evangelical Union of Eurasia (1995 )
  • Armenian Evangelical Society of Europe
  • Union of the Armenian Evangelical Communities in Bulgaria ( 1995)
Armenian language Millet (Ottoman Empire) Evangelical Church in Germany
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