Definition of catholicos. Meaning of catholicos. Synonyms of catholicos

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Definition of catholicos

Catholicos
Catholicos Ca*thol"i*cos, n. [NL. See Catholic.] (Eccl.) The spiritual head of the Armenian church, who resides at Etchmiadzin, Russia, and has ecclesiastical jurisdiction over, and consecrates the holy oil for, the Armenians of Russia, Turkey, and Persia, including the Patriarchs of Constantinople, Jerusalem, and Sis. Note: The Patriarch of Constantinople is the civil head of the Armenians in Turkey.

Meaning of catholicos from wikipedia

- are known as catholicos-patriarchs. In the Armenian Church there are two catholicoi: the supreme catholicos of Ejmiadzin and the catholicos of Cilicia....
- Catholicos is Karekin II. The Catholicos is often referred to both by the church and the media as the Armenian Pontiff. Historically, the Catholicos was...
- (1975–1991), also Catholicos of the East Mathews II (1991–2005), also Catholicos of the East Didymos I (2005–2010), also Catholicos of the East Paulose...
- Catholicos-Patriarch has been the title of the heads of the Georgian Orthodox Church since 1010. The first Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia was Melkisedek...
- Bishop of Caesarea. Its Catholicos was represented at the First Council of Nicea (325). St. Vrtanes I, the third Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic...
- The Catholicos of India also known as the Catholicos of the East, is an ecclesiastical office within the Syriac Orthodox Church. He is the Catholicos, spiritual...
- the same bishop holding two offices of Catholicos of the East and Malankara Metropolitan. The term "Catholicos" is derived from the Gr**** word Katholikos...
- Baselious Marthoma Mathews II, Catholicos of the East and Malankara Metropolitan on 29 April 1991, becoming the Sixth Catholicos in Malankara and 89th Successor...
- as the successor to the Catholicos of the East on 27 September 2006. Paulose Mar Milithios was enthroned as the new Catholicos of the East and Malankara...
- 1999) served as the Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church between 1994 and 1999. Previously, he served as the Catholicos of Cilicia from 1983 to...