Holy Cross Armenian Catholic Church

200 Lexington St
Belmont MA 02478
(USA)
  tel: 617 / 489.2280    fax: 617 / 484.0218
  eMail: sbxa@bellatlantic.net     web: http://fmwww.bc.edu/ecclarm/sbxa.html (this page)

 
Pastor: Very Rev Fr Raphaël Andonian OMech andonr@bellatlantic.net
Supplying priests: Rev Fr Charles Onyango Oduke SJ (Boston College) oduke@bc.edu
  Rev Fr John Grennon OCD (Discalced Carmelites, Brighton) tel: 617/787.5056
Archdeacon: Rev Dcn M.J. Connolly (Boston College) cnnmj@bc.edu
 
Former supplying priest: Rev Fr Paul J. O'Connor AA
returned to New Zealand in June 2003
Farewell photos (16 June 2003)
pauloc@ihug.co.nz
 
Apostolic Exarch (US & Canada): Most Rev Fr Manuel Batakian ICPB
 
Apostolic Exarch (deceased): Most Rev Fr Hovhannes Tertzakian OMech deceased, 28 January 2002
obituary


The Parish celebrates Mass (Surp badarak) every Sunday morning at 10.30h.
Refreshments and pastries follow in the Atinizian auditorium.

Link to Parish activities including our liturgical calendar (.pdf document, sample)
Dates for NCLI adult religious education series on the Gospels (.pdf document).
 
For related external links, see below

Text of a patriarchal letter (31 December 2000) from His Beatitude Nerses Bedros XIX, concerning the 1700th anniversary of the establishment of Christianity as the state religion in Armenia.

Text of a draft policy on the protection of children and young people from sexual abuse by clergy and church personnel.

When in full operation this site will present

as well as documentation about Armenian church history, liturgy, and theology.

 

Selected links:
 
For the official site of the Armenian Apostolic Church (Etchmiadzin), see:
http://www.etchmiadzin.com --reported as 'not available' 2001-04-03
 
For information about the Armenian Catholic Patriarchate (Bzommar), see:
http://www.opuslibani.org.lb/armenimenu.html --link sometimes slow
 
For the official site of the Catholicosate of Cilicia (Antelias), see:
http://www.cathcil.org/
 
For the official site of the Armenian Patriarchate of St James (Jerusalem), see:
http://www.armenian-patriarchate.org/
 
For the official site of the Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople (Istanbul), see:
http://www.armenianpatriarchate.org.tr/
 
For the website of the Antelias (Cilician) Armenian Apostolic Prelacy for the Eastern United States and Canada, see:
http://www.armprelacy.org
 
For the website of the Etchmiadzin Armenian Apostolic Diocese of America, see:
http://www.armenianchurch.org/
 
For a comprehensive overview of Roman and Eastern Catholic topics, begin with the Catholic Information Network site at:
http://www.cin.org
 
For Eastern Catholic churches in particular, see the CIN dedicated page:
http://www.cin.org/eastern.html
 
For web links to many Catholic sites, Western and Eastern, see Father Maurice Voity's Catholic-USA site:
http://www.catholic-usa.com/welc_links.html
 
We hope to release soon the websites
for the Apostolic Exarchate for Armenian Catholics in the United States and Canada
and for the Nersês Lambronac'i Catechetical Institute.

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