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criticised this move and asked for the election of a new
Patriarch by universal suffrage instead. (It is estimated that some 20 thousand members of the community are eligible to vote in such an election.) At last, the synod decided to retire the Patriarch
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Armenian Apostolic Church had not been allowed to operate in Constantinople because the two churches (Armenian Church and Orthodox Church) mutually regarded each other as heretical. The schism was rooted in the rejection of the
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residing. To alleviate the fate of the survivors of the
Armenian genocide the Patriarchate founded a Committee for Orphan Relief, a Central Committee for Deportees and was also involved in the establishment of the National Relief Mission.
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Turkish administration also restored the constitution. In the initial period of the reign of the Young Turks, the Armenians enjoyed a brief period of restoration of civil liberties between 1908 and 1915.
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Despite a huge diminution in the number of its faithful during the
Armenian genocide, the patriarchate remains the spiritual head of the largest Christian community presently living in Turkey.
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Armenian Patriarchs have served after the establishment of the Republic of Turkey. The synod of the Patriarchate has designated, with the votes of 25 of its 26 members, Aram Ateşyan as
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meaning "Bringer of News", (Lraber in Eastern Armenian) is published weekly (monthly in the summer months). The bilingual
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leader of all Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, and carried the title of
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for Acting Patriarch) in 2010 because of the illness of the Patriarch
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Catholicos of All Armenians (Patriarch of Etchmiadzin)
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