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great difficulty in re-establishing his functions and it was only after 1928, and after he had issued a dramatic Will, that the question was resolved. 27 In 1929 the Patriarch of Jerusalem formally renounced his jurisdiction on the dioceses and properties of Beirut, Damascus and Latakia in favour of the Catholicos, and the following year the Catholicosate of the Great House of Cilicia could find its new permanent See in Antelias, on the coast north of Beirut. 28 The solution of the question of the Catholicosate of Cilicia was accompanied by the re-establishment of the institutions regulating the internal life of the Apostolic community. These were modelled on the legacy of the Armenian millet experience and on the Armenian 'national constitution' of 1863. Dioceses and jurisdictions were adapted to the new context of the Mandate: the Armenian Apostolic community in Lebanon (clergy and laity) would elect an Armenian National General Assembly; the community in Syria would do the same. Each National Assembly would form a Religious Central Council and a Civil Central Council, the religious and secular 'executive organs' of the community, with responsibilities including the organisation

Publisher

Berghahn Books

Published

2022

Language

EN