Fonds AM-HAA/409 - Archives of the Supreme Spiritual Council of Etchmiadzin

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AM-HAA/409

Title

Archives of the Supreme Spiritual Council of Etchmiadzin

Date(s)

  • 1923-10-01-1973-12-31 (Creation)

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Fonds

Extent and medium

Global extent: 5825 cases for list 1; 18 selected and described items from 16 selected cases

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Name of creator

(1837-1923)

Administrative history

To be completed.
The Supreme Spiritual Council is the highest executive body of the Armenian Church and is presided over by the Catholicos of All Armenians. The members of the Council can be elected by the National Ecclesiastical Assembly or appointed by the Catholicos of All Armenians. The Catholicos of All Armenians, Gevorg V. Soorenian established the Supreme Spiritual Council on January 1, 1924, to replace the Synod of Bishops.

Archival history

This fonds may have been subjected to reorganization after the unification of many Regional Archives to the National Archives. Please read more about it by clicking on the repository’s entry National Archives of Armenia (HAA).

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Scope and content

List 1 : Administrative, local and foreign dioceses, private sections

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Accruals

The fonds is closed.

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Conditions governing access

Subject to the authorization of the National Archives of Armenia (HAA).

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      Rules and/or conventions used

      ISAD(G), Second Edition, Ottawa 2000.

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      Dates of creation revision deletion

      Catalogue prepared on September to November 2016; February 2017

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          Archivist's note

          Inventory of a range of 18 items from the Archives of the Supreme Spiritual Council of Etchmiadzin, (1924-1939), held by the National Archives of Armenia (Erevan), made by Arman Khachatryan, Gohar Avakyan, Sonya Mirzoyan and Hovakimyan Nazenyi, 2016.

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