ARMENIAN CHURCH APPROVES ‘COLLECTIVE CANONIZATION’ OF GENOCIDE VICTIMS
Catholic Culture
Oct 4 2013
CWN – October 04, 2013
>From Our Store: Liturgical Year 2012-2013, Vol. 6: Ordinary Time
Completed (eBook) At the conclusion of a recent synod, the Armenian
Apostolic Church announced that it approved “in principle” the
“collective canonization” of the victims of the Armenian Genocide,
which took place in 1915 and claimed an estimated 1.5 million victims.
Father Georges Dankaye, rector of the Pontifical Armenian College,
told the Fides news agency that the Armenian Apostolic Church has
not conducted any canonizations since the sixth century.
The Armenian Apostolic Church, which ceased to be in communion with the
Holy See following the Council of Chalcedon in 451, has six million
members; the Armenian Catholic Church, an Eastern Catholic church in
full communion with the Holy See, has 375,000 members.