What is the difference between Armenian Christian and Catholic ?

Question

What is the difference between Armenian Christian and Catholic ?

Answer 1

One is stupid. The other is ridiculous.

Answer 2

Catholics call themselves Christians, yet they have to go through a priest to talk to Jesus and they pray to Mary.

I would assume an Armenian Christian is just a Christian with an Armenian nationality.

Also, Catholics have more books in their Bible than the standard Holy Bible (i.e. The Book of Mary).

Answer 3

If you're interested, this is a popular forum for Armenian Orthodox Christians, you may find more answers here...

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Here is one for Catholic Christians...

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Answer 4

I have no idea.

The Guru - you are wrong. Catholics talk directly to God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit all the time.  

Answer 5

First of and i could be wrong but the Armenian Church is obedient to Rome but it could be Obedient to the Greek Orthodox. But the only differences would be in there liturgy as far as beliefs whether Catholic or Orthodox there the same out side of  some of the discipline such as celibate only Priest. But both celebrate the sacrifice of the Mass .

Answer 6

Armenians are Orthodox Christians.

The Kingdom of Armenia was the first state to adopt Christianity as its religion [7] when St. Gregory the Illuminator converted King Tiridates III and members of his court,[8] an event traditionally dated to 301 A.D. (after Mikayel Chamchian 1784).[9] Gregory, trained and ordained in Christianity at Caesarea returned to his native land to preach about 287, the same time that Tiridates III took the throne. Tiridates owed his position to the Roman Emperor Diocletian, a noted persecutor of Christianity. In addition, he became aware that Gregory was a son of Anak, the man who assassinated his father. Consequently Tiridates imprisoned Gregory in an underground pit, called Khor Virap, for 13 years. In 301, 37 Christian virgins, fleeing Roman persecution, came to Armenia. Tiridates desired one of them, Rhipsime, to be his wife, but she turned him down. In a rage, he martyred the whole group of them. Soon afterward, according to legend, God struck him with an illness that left him crawling around like a beast. The story is reminiscent of Nebudchadnezzar in Daniel 4. Xosroviduxt, the king’s sister, had a dream in which she was told that the persecution of Christians must stop. She related this to Tiridates, who released Gregory from prison. Gregory then healed Tiridates and converted him to Christianity. Tiridates immediately declared Armenia to be a Christian nation, becoming the first official Christian state.

Tiridates declares Gregory to be the first Catholicos of the church and sent him to Caesarea to be consecrated. Upon his return, Gregory tore down idol centers, built churches and monasteries, and ordained hundreds of priests and bishops. While meditating in the old capital city of Vagharshapat, Gregory had a vision of Christ coming down to the earth to strike it with a hammer. From the spot rose a great Christian temple with a huge cross. He was convinced that God wanted him to build the main Armenian church there. With the king’s help, he did so, along the lines of what he saw in the vision at the spot he saw the hammer strike. He renamed the city Etchmiadzin which means “the place of the descent of the only-begotten”.[10]

Initially the Armenian church participated in the larger church world. Its Catholicos was represented at the First Council of Nicea and the First Council of Constantinople. Although he could not attend the Council of Ephesus, the Catholicos Isaac Parthiev sent a message agreeing with its decisions.[11] The Armenian church began to retreat from the larger church world in 373 when King Pap appointed the Catholicos Yusik without first sending him to Caesarea for commissioning.[12]

Christianity was strengthened in Armenia by the translation of the Bible into the Armenian language by the Armenian theologian, monk and scholar St. Mesrob Mashtots. Until the fifth century, Armenia had its own spoken language, but not written. The Bible and liturgy were in Greek. The Catholicos Sahak commissioned Mersob to create an Armenian alphabet, which he completed in 406. Subsequently the Bible and liturgy were translated into Armenian and written down in its new script. This began a cultural rennaisance with the production of a host of Armenian literature.[13]

Unlike other eastern churches, the Armenian Bible originally had 39 books in the Old Testament. What are commonly called the Apocrypha or Deuterocanonical books were not translated until the 8th century and not read in the churches until the 12th century.

Catholics is the other line of Christianity. While the Pope is the man there.

Answer 7

Who knows?  But, most importantly, who cares?

Answer 8

you christians and your questions

don't you follow the same thing anyway, the bible?

Answer 9

"What separates us as believers in Christ is much less than what unites us." (Pope John XXIII)

Almost all important doctrine is completely agreed upon between Catholic Christians and other Christians.

Here is the joint declaration of justification by Catholics (1999), Lutherans (1999), and Methodists (2006):

By grace alone, in faith in Christ's saving work and not because of any merit on our part, we are accepted by God and receive the Holy Spirit, who renews our hearts while equipping us and calling us to good works.

http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontif...

There are many minor doctrine issues and some major cultural traditional differences which, I believe, do not matter that much.

A Catholic worships and follows Christ in the tradition of Catholicism which, among other things, recognizes that Christ made Peter the leader of His new Church and Pope Benedict XVI is Peter's direct successor.

For more information, see the Catechism of the Catholic Church: http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/inde...

With love in Christ.