In 1441 the Holy See of the Catholicos of All Armenians was transferred from Cilicia to Saint Etchmiadzin. It has been located there to the present day.
Catholicos Gregory IX (1439-1441) couldn’t move to Etchmiadzin due to his serious illness. He asked the National Church Council to elect a new Catholicos. And in 1441 in Saint Etchmiadzin the Council elected Kirakos Virapetsi (1441-1443) as the new Cathlolicos.
Deprived of the See, the citizens of Cilicia established a new Catholicosate of the Great House of Cilicia within the territory of Cilicia after the death of Catholicos Gregory IX.
After 1930 the Holy See of the Catholicos, due to the Armenian Genocide in Cilicia, was forced to move from one location into another for ten years. Finally it settled in Antelias (Lebanon) and it continues to headquarter there to the present day. But after so many various locations, the Holy See was on the verge of extinction – it had lost nearly all its Eparchies, except the Eparchy of Aleppo. To save that historical Holy See, the Catholicos of All Armenians asked the Patriarchy of Jerusalem to temporarily add the Eparchies of Beirut and Damascus to the Catholicosate of the Great House of Cilicia, and the Patriarchy of Constantinople – to temporarily add the Eparchy of Cyprus.
Nowadays the Epachies in Lebanon, Syria and Cyprus are under the jurisdiction of the Catholicosate of Cilicia.
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