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catholicate

(kəˈθɒlɪˌkeɪt)
n
(Christian Churches, other) the legal power of the leader of an Armenian church
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I had an occasion to interview Justice Iyer whom I first heard when he visited my alma mater, Catholicate College, Pathanamthitta, while he was a judge of the Kerala High Court.
Summary: The Tournament was organised by the Catholicate College Alumni
Prof D Mathews, retired professor at Catholicate College, Pathan-amthitta, will deliver the message.
Summary: TEHRAN (FNA)- Head of the Catholicate of the Great House of Cilicia Aram I felicitated the Iranian nation on the election of Hassan Rouhani as the next president of the country, and said results of Iran's voting will decrease the regional crises.
Back home in Kerala, the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church celebrated its 1,960th year in the state today and the centenary of the establishment of the church's Catholicate. The church claims to have laid roots in Kerala in AD 52.
(1) Catholicate College Pathanamthitta Kerala, India daissaji@rediffmail.com
His headquarters, in Antelias, Lebanon, operates independently of the Catholicate of Etchmiadzin.
The present organization of the Church consists of the Patriarchate of Etchmiadzin (the Patriarch is the head of the Armenian Church), the Catholicate of Sis, and the Patriarchates of Jerusalem and Constantinople.
This conclusion was reached at the Armenian bishops' council of 1179, called by Catholicos Krikor Tegha ("the Young") in Hromkla, where the Catholicate of All the Armenians had settled at the time.
5, 26) vouchsafed to the hierarch concerning the future of both Armenia's royal and primatial lines (previously the catholicate had also been hereditary).
I remember what John Sir from Channanapally taught us at Catholicate College, Pathanamthitta -- Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.
Summary: Shaikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, felicitated Moran Mar Baselios Marthoma Paulose II, Catholicos of the East and Malankara Metropolitan, on the occasion of the 1960th anniversary of the establishment of the Malankara Syrian Orthodox Church and the centenary celebrations of the establishment of the Catholicate of the East in India.