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Webster 1913 Edition
Catholicos
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Ca-thol′i-cos
,Noun.
[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.
☞ The Patriarch of Constantinople is the civil head of the Armenians in Turkey.
Definition 2024
catholicos
catholicos
See also: cathólicos
English
Noun
catholicos (plural catholicoses or catholicoi)
- (Christianity) A bishop or patriarch of certain states or regions of the ancient Near East; now specifically, the head of the Armenian Apostolic Church.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 252:
- Kavad had quickly ordered that a new Catholicos should be chosen for the Church, ending a hiatus of twenty years in which Shah Khusrau had prevented the office being filled.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 252:
Translations
The head of the Armenian Apostolic Church
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