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-Patriarch has been the title of the heads of the Georgian Orthodox Church since 1010. The first Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia was Melkisedek...
- 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...
- Baselious Marthoma Mathews II, Catholicos of the East and Malankara Metropolitan on 29 April 1991, becoming the Sixth Catholicos in Malankara and 89th Successor...
- Catholicos Aboon Mor Baselios Thomas I[usurped] The Official Blogs of Catholicos Aboon Mor Baselios Thomas I The Official Facebook Page of Catholicos...
- (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...
- Bishop of Caesarea. Its Catholicos was represented at the First Council of Nicea (325). St. Vrtanes I, the third Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic...
- as Catholicos of India in 2002, in accordance with its actual jurisdiction. Gregorios Joseph, the Malankara Metropolitan, was elected as Catholicos, following...
- Catholicos Garegin II (Armenian: Գարեգին Բ, also spelled Karekin; born 21 August 1951) is the Catholicos of All Armenians, the supreme head of the Armenian...
- Orthodox Syrian Church uses the title Catholicos of the East and Malankara Metropolitan. The in****bent 'Catholicos of the East and Malankara Metropolitan'...