Diocese of Shirak

Diocese of Shirak Շիրակի թեմ
Cathedral of the Holy Mother of God
Location
Country	Armenia
Territory	Shirak Province
Statistics
Population - Total	(as of 2011) 251,941
Information
Denomination	Armenian Apostolic Church
Rite	Armenian Rite
Established	4 September 1920
Cathedral	Holy Mother of God, Gyumri
Secular priests	21
Current leadership
Patriarch	Karekin II
Primate	Bishop Mikael Ajapahyan

Diocese of Shirak (Armenian: Շիրակի թեմ Shiraki t'em) is one of the largest dioceses of the Armenian Apostolic Church covering the Shirak Province of Armenia. The diocesan headquarters are located in the city of Gyumri. The seat of the bishop is the Cathedral of the Holy Mother of God.

The diocese was established in 1920.^[1] The prelacy building is located on Varpetats Street near the Vartanants Square. It was designed by Hovhannes Katchaznouni and built at the beginning of the 20th century.

Gallery

The prelacy building

References

↑ Diocese of Shirak

Dioceses of the Armenian Apostolic Church

Armenia and
Nagorno-Karabakh

Etchmiadzin

Aragatsotn (Saint Mesrop of Oshakan)
Araratian (Saint Sarkis of Yerevan)
Armavir (Holy Mother of God of Vagharshapat)
Artsakh (Ghazanchetsots of Shushi)
Gegharkounik (Holy Mother of God Cathedral of Gavar)
Gougark (Gregory of Narek of Vanadzor)
Kotayk (Kecharis of Tsaghkadzor)
Shirak (Holy Mother of God of Gyumri)
Syunik (Saint Gregory of Goris)
Tavush (Surp Nerses of Ijevan)
Vayots Dzor (Holy Mother of God of Yeghegnadzor)

Middle East

Etchmiadzin	Damascus (Saint Sarkis of Damascus) Egypt (Saint Gregory of Cairo) Iraq (Saint Gregory of Baghdad)

Cilicia	Atrpatakan (Saint Mary of Tabriz) Beroea (Forty Martyrs of Aleppo) Cyprus (Holy Mother of God of Nicosia) Isfahan (Saint Joseph of Arimathea at the Holy Saviour Monastery of New Julfa of Isfahan) Jezireh (Surp Hagop of al-Qamishli) Kuwait (Holy Vartanants of Kuwait City) Lebanon (Surp Nshan of Beirut) Tehran (Saint Sarkis of Tehran) UAE and Qatar (Holy Martyrs of Abu Dhabi)

Jerusalem	Patriarchate of Jerusalem (Saint James of Jerusalem) Amman (Saint Thaddeus of Amman)

Constantinople	Patriarchate of Constantinople (Holy Mother of God of Kumkapı of Istanbul)

Europe

Etchmiadzin	France (Saint John the Baptist of Paris) Georgia (Surp Gevork of Tbilisi) Germany (Saint Sahak and Mesrop of Köln) Great Britain (Surp Sarkis of London) Greece (Holy Mother of God of Athens) Nor Nakhichevan and Russia (Holy Transfiguration of Moscow) Romania and Bulgaria (Holy Mother of God of Sofia) Southern Russia (Saint John the Evangelist of Krasnodar) Switzerland (Surp Hagop of Geneva) Ukraine (Assumption of Mary of Lviv)

Cilicia	Greece (Saint Gregory of Athens)

North America

Etchmiadzin	Canada (Saint Gregory of Montreal) Eastern USA (Saint Vartan of New York) Western USA (Saint Levon of Los Angeles)

Cilicia	Canada (Surp Hagop of Montreal) Eastern USA (Saint Gregory of New York) Western USA (Saint John the Baptist of Los Angeles)

South America

Etchmiadzin	Argentina (Saint Gregory of Buenos Aires) Brazil (Surp Gevork of São Paulo) Uruguay (Surp Nerses of Montevideo)

Oceania

Etchmiadzin	Australia and New Zealand (Holy Mother of God of Sydney)

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