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Item Ecmiatzin Kat'oğikosluğu'nun Ermeni Kilisesi'ndeki yeri(Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2007) Seyfeli, Canan; Eroğlu, Ahmet Hikmet; FelsefeThe establishment of the Armenian Church stretches back to the fourth century. Baptized by St. Gregory the Illuminator, the Armenian people, with their king and their prominents collectively became Christians. The foundation of Echmiadzin as a center of religious leadership also extends back to the establishment of the Armenian Church and the work of St. Gregory the Illuminator (302). This is the general narrative accepted in the Armenian Church and the outside world. In this thesis we attempted to research the historical data and bases of this belief according to classical Armenian sources. For this reasons, we decided to write this research titled "The place of Etchmiadzin Headquarters in the Armenian Church." In order to assess historically the place of the Seat we deemed it necessary to investigate the history of the Armenian Church. The first chapter aims to provide an overview of "The Establishment of Christianity among the Armenians." In this part we first explored "Etchmiadzin During the Growth of the Independent Armenian Church (301-449). After this, we develop the transformation of Vagharshabat, the place where God's Only Son descended. We contend that during the development of the Independent Armenian Church, Etchmiadzin developed as well. The second chapter is devoted to the period between the moving of the Catholicosate to Dvin (428) and its return to its original place Etchmiadzin (1441). During this moving period we attempted to characterize the image of Etchmiadzin in the eyes of the Armenian Church by concentrating on Etchmiadzin in the period 428-1441. In the second part of this chapter we present a description of how Etchmiadzin moved to Vagharshabat in 1441 and argue that it was not an agreed movement and therefore discussions about it continued in the next period. In the third and last chapter we contextualized the Etchmiadzin Catholicosate within the structure of the Armenian Church. We first placed it in the hierarchy of the Armenian Church and Liturgy. In the second part we tried to establish Etchmiadzin's place within the other Armenian Church hierarchies and hierarchical centers. As a conclusion we established that Etchmiadzin kept its prominence despite the moving of the Catholicosate and the establishment of other higher religious centers.