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*[ '''Google Maps search results for Armenian Orthodox or Apostolic churches in Lebanon'''] | *[ '''Google Maps search results for Armenian Orthodox or Apostolic churches in Lebanon'''] | ||
===Historical Background=== | |||
The Armenians in Lebanon were refugees who had fled Turkey during and after World War I and the Armenian genocide. | |||
The Apostolic Church was organized in the third century and became autocephalous as a national church in the fourth century. In the sixth century it modified the formulations of the Council of Chalcedon of 451 that confirmed the dual nature of Christ in one person. Instead the Apostolic Church adopted a form of Miaphysitism that believes in the united nature of divine and human in Christ, a belief shared by the Copts and the Syrian Orthodox Church (Oriental Orthodox Church). The Armenian Orthodox Church has two catholicoi (Sis and Etchmiadzin Cathedral) and two patriarchs (Constantinople and Jerusalem). | |||
The Armenians in Lebanon reside mostly in Beirut and its northern suburbs as well as in Anjar. During the civil war the main stance of the Armenians was not to pick a side between Muslims or Christians and stay exempt mostly from the fighting. The largest Armenian community in Lebanon is found in Bourj Hammoud. | |||
=='''Armenian Catholic Church'''== | =='''Armenian Catholic Church'''== | ||