Éparchie Notre-Dame de Nareg of New York of the Armenians

The éparchie Notre-Dame de Nareg of New York of the Armenians is a jurisdiction of the Armenian Catholic church in North America. It was canonically set up the September 12th 2005 by the pope Benoît XVI. Its éparque is Mgr Manuel Batakian, which sits at the Cathédrale Holy-Anne of New York. Its surface corresponds with the territory inhabited by the Armenian American and the Armenian Canadian.

This éparchie before had been set up in apostolic Exarchat the July 3rd 1981 by the pope Jean-Paul II with the bubble Divini Pastoris . The laic éparchiaux ones are 36.000 and fourteen priests carry their ministry to the nine North-American Armenian parishes.

The history of the Armenian catholic community of New York goes back to the end of the XIXe century. In 1896, Its Bliss Stepan-Bedros X Azarian indeed required of Mgr Mardiros Megerian to be Armenian Pasteur in New Yorkean mileu.

Named patriarchal Vicar, Mgr Margerian collaborated much to make immigrate the victims of the Armenian genocide. Its successor, Mgr Haroutyoun Maldjian, were used the missions at the time of the Grande depression as 1929 with 1933.

Several parishes were then founded: Paterson (1909), Philadelphia (1923), Boston (1923), Los Angeles (1945), Strait (1948), Montreal (1966), Toronto (1974), New York (1984) Little Falls (1991) and Glendale (1999).

Exarchats apostolic and éparques

Mikail Nersès Sétian † (1981 - 1993)
Hovhannes Tertsakian, (1995 - 2000)
Manual Batakian (2000 -)

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