Identity area
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Date(s)
- 1830-1923 (Creation)
Level of description
Extent and medium
Global extent: 86011 cases (boxes); 140 selected and described items from 73 selected cases out of 10 studied series
Context area
Name of creator
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.
Repository
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).
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
This collection is divided into 19 lists (sections). It is the largest collection held by the National Archives of Armenia (HAA).
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
The fonds is closed.
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Subject to the authorization of the National Archives of Armenia (HAA).
Conditions governing reproduction
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Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
After 1924, records from the Synod constitute the collection N°409 of the National Archives of Armenia: AM-HAA/409.
Notes area
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Rules and/or conventions used
ISAD(G), Second Edition, Ottawa 2000.
Status
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Dates of creation revision deletion
Catalogue prepared from September to November 2016
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Archivist's note
Inventory of a range of 140 items from the Archives of the Saint Apostolic Synod of Etchmiadzin, (1839-1914), held by the National Archives of Armenia (Erevan), made by Arman Khachatryan, Gohar Avakyan, Sonya Mirzoyan and Hovakimyan Nazenyi, 2016-2017.