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Union of the Armenian Evangelical Churches in the Near East
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Jeitawi Region, Ashrafieh
PO Box 11-0377, Riad el Solh
1107-2040 Beirut
Lebanon (Asien)
Telefon: +961 1 44 35 47/56 56 28
Fax: +961 1 56 56 29
E-Mail: uaecne@cyberia.net.lb
AdressNr.: 13197 / 4391

Text written by the church:
This Church in the Near East is an autonomous body of churches comprising 25 congregations throughout Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, Greece, Egypt, Iran and Australia. Beginning in the second decade of the l9th century as an indigenous reform movement within the Armenian Orthodox Church, it developed into an independent community in 1846 in Istanbul, and in subsequent decades registered a membership of 60,000 throughout the Ottoman Empire. After the First World War, when the Armenian population was decimated and the remnant deported from its historic homeland in what is now called Turkey, the Union was reorganized in Syria and Lebanon. The Union is composed of autonomous congregations. Its organizational pattern is a kind of modified congregationalism. The annual convention of the Union is the highest authority. The central committee of 12 members, elected at the convention, acts as an administrative body supervising and coordinating the activities of the member churches and church related institutions.

From its inception, the Armenian Evangelical Church has stressed the importance of education. It now operates 23 schools and four high schools and owns the only university in the diaspora: Haigazian University, member of the Association of International Colleges and Universities-Europe Inc., with an enrolment of 650 students. It operates four conference centers in Syria, Lebanon, Iran and Turkey. Together with the Arabic-speaking Evangelical churches, the Union owns and operates a secondary school in Aleppo and the Near East School of Theology in Beirut (the latter also supported by foreign missionary agencies). With the Armenian Orthodox and Armenian Catholic Catholicossates it operates the old people's homes in Aleppo and Beirut, and a sanatorium in Lebanon.

It has developed ecumenical ties with several churches and fraternal relations with the Armenian Evangelical Union of North America, the Armenian Evangelical Union of France and the Armenian Evangelical Union of Armenia. In spite of grave problems of emigrations and persecution, the Union continues to function with a growing awareness of its mission in its territories.

 

Publications:
Religious Monthly for Youth
Literary Monthly for Juniors
Devotional Quarterly to Promote Family Worship
Occasional Publications (all in Armenian)
 

Language:
The official language of the church is Armenian.
 


Statistik der Kirche

Mitglieder
total: 9500
Gemeinden
(herkömmlich): 25
Hauskreise
(Gemeinden im Werden): 4
Ordinierte
total: 19
 
Frauenordination üblich
Älteste
total: 0
Diakone/innen
total: 0
  diakonische Einrichtungen vorhanden
Missionare/innen
total: 0
 
keine Angaben zur missionarischen Arbeit im Ausland vorhanden
Taufe
Kinder- und Gläubigentaufe
Taufpaten
Keine Informationen über Taufpaten
Abendmahl
pro Jahr: 12
Publikationen
Herausgabe eigener Zeitschriften (siehe Text)
Theol. Ausbildungsstätten

 
Anzahl: 1

Allgemeinbld. Schulen
sonstige Schulen in Trägerschaft
Gründungsjahr
1848
Organisationstruktur
as a Congregational union of 9 independent churches united only spiritually and socially
Bekenntnisgrundlage
  • Apostolischen Glaubensbekenntnis
  • Heidelberger Katechismus (1563)
  • Nizänisches Glaubensbekenntnis (381)
Mitgliedschaften

Internationale Verbindungen

Regionale Verbindungen

 

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