The Armenian Catholic Church is an Eastern Catholic church that follows the Armenian liturgical tradition, is in full communion with the bishop of Rome, and had roughly 757,726 adherents in 2017.
The Armenian Catholic Church is divided into Archdioceses, Eparchies, Apostolic Exarchates, Ordinariates for the Faithful of the Eastern Rite and Patriarchal Exarchates, each of which has functions similar to a diocese.
The Armenian Catholic Patriarchate of the See of Cilicia is the supreme authority of the Armenian Catholic Church. On 23 September 2021, Raphaël Bedros XXI Minassian was elected as the Church's new patriarch.
Below is a list of the jurisdictions with their number of adherents.
| Archeparchies (Archdioceses) |
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| Patriarchate of Cilicia, also sole Metropolitanate as Armenian Catholic Archeparchy of Beirut, Lebanon 🇱🇧 (Patriarchal proper archdiocese) |
| Archeparchy of Aleppo (Halab, Beroa), Syria 🇸🇾 |
| Archeparchy of Baghdad, Iraq 🇮🇶 |
| Archeparchy of Istanbul (Constantinople), Turkey 🇹🇷 |
| Archeparchy of Lviv, Ukraine 🇺🇦 |
| Suffragan Eparchies in the Patriarch's Metropolitan Province of Cilicia |
| Ispahan, Iran 🇮🇷 |
| Alexandria (Iskanderiya) actually in Cairo, Egypt 🇪🇬 |
| Kameshli ((Al-)Qamishli), Syria 🇸🇾 |
| Other Eparchies (dioceses), in the diaspora |
| Eparchy of Our Lady of Nareg in the United States of America 🇺🇸 and Canada 🇨🇦 |
| Eparchy of Sainte-Croix-de-Paris, France 🇫🇷 |
| Eparchy of Saint Gregory of Narek, Buenos Aires, Argentina 🇦🇷 |
| Apostolic Exarchates (missionary, directly dependent on the Holy See) |
| Armenian Catholic Apostolic Exarchate of Latin America and Mexico 🇲🇽 |
| Ordinariates for the Faithful of the Eastern Rites |
| Greece 🇬🇷 (Athens) |
| Ordinariate for Romania 🇷🇴 (Gherla) |
| Eastern Europe (except Romania 🇷🇴) (Gyumri, Armenia 🇦🇲) |
| Poland 🇵🇱 (Warsaw, Poland 🇵🇱) |
| Patriarchal Exarchates |
| Damascus, part of Syria 🇸🇾 |
| Jerusalem and Amman (Jordan 🇯🇴 & Holy Land) |
Armenian Sisters of the Immaculate Conception
The Order of the Armenian Catholic Sisters of the Immaculate Conception was founded in Istanbul on 5 June 1847 after being proposed in 1843 at the initiative of Archbishop Andon Hassounian. Around 1900 the sisters operated up to 30 schools across the Middle East, and in the United States they have run Armenian Sisters Academy schools in Philadelphia, Boston, and Los Angeles.
Patriarchal Congregation of Bzommar
The Patriarchal Congregation of Bzommar is an Armenian Catholic congregation of priests founded in 1750, whose members use the initials ICPB. It grew from a monastery established in Bzommar, Lebanon, by the Patriarch of Cilicia, and the congregation is dedicated to serving the Church and supporting Armenian communities wherever they are sent by the Catholicos, who serves ex officio as superior general.
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