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well as the residence of the monastic orders,
libraries, museums, manuscripts, and archive
centers, guest houses, printing houses, and
departments related to Christian education,
youth, women, social service, publication,
and communication. Among these depart-
ments the theological seminary occupies an
important place. The Hierarchical Sees have
their official monthly reviews: the Holy See
of St. Etchmiadzin, Ējmiacin; the Holy See
of Cilicia, Hask; the Patriarchate of Jerusalem,
Sion; and the Patriarchate of Constantinople,
Šołakat‘.
Two Catholicosates within One Church
The emergence of two major Catholico-
sates with two catholicoi within one Church,
living in different politico-religious environ-
ments, serving under the most complex and
critical conditions, and facing different chal-
lenges and priorities, has, from time to time,
generated some tension and controversies
within the Armenian Church, affecting the
life of our people. The relations between the
two Catholicosates grew quite tense during
the period when Armenia was under Czarist
Russia and Cilicia was under Ottoman rule;
during the period when Armenia was part
of the Soviet Union, much of the diaspora
was virulently anti-Soviet. Jurisdictional ques-
tions have also deepened the disputes be-