The Mechitarists, officially the Benedictine Congregation of the Mechitarists, is an Armenian Catholic monastic order of pontifical right for men founded in 1701 by Mekhitar of Sebaste. Members use the postnominal abbreviation CAM.
The island of San Lazzaro, with the monastery and the church of Mekhitarists.
Byron's visit to San Lazzaro in 1816
The Mekhitarist Monastery in Vienna, Austria.
The Armenian Catholic Church is an Eastern Catholic particular churches sui iuris of the Catholic Church. It accepts the leadership of the bishop of Rome, and is therefore in full communion with the universal Catholic Church, including the Latin Church and the 22 other Eastern Catholic Churches. The Armenian Catholic Church is regulated by Eastern canon law, summed up in the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches.
Cathedral of Saint Elias and Saint Gregory the Illuminator in Beirut, the seat of the Armenian Catholic Patriarchate of Cilicia.
Saint John Church of Sohrol in Iran, built in the 5th or 6th century
Saint Gregory the Illuminator Armenian Catholic Cathedral in Glendale, California
Bishops meeting in Jerusalem, circa 1880. The archbishop (centre) wears a Roman pallium.