From Ambiguity to Separation : Shaping an Armenian Catholic Identity in Constantinople (1680–1730)

Santus, Cesare
(2017) International Conference “Global Reformations: Transforming Early Modern Religions, Societies, and Cultures” — Location: Toronto (Canada) (28.September.2017)

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From the last decades of the 17th century onwards, the Armenian communities of the Ottoman Empire became the target of a renewed and more successful work of Catholic apostolate. The supple and somehow ambiguous strategy of the former missionaries based mostly on cultivating good relations with the hierarchy of the Armenian Apostolic church and on tolerating the practice of communicatio in sacris, was replaced by a more intransigent attitude, which aimed at the construction of clear-cut confessional boundaries. My paper examines the problems arising within the Empire’s most important Armenian community, that of Constantinople, as a consequence of this new approach. In particular, I will take into consideration the intellectual and practical tools employed at the time to shape an “Armenian Catholic identity” (analyzing the different methods used by the European and Armenian missionaries) as well as the reaction of the Apostolic hierarchy and of the Ottoman authorities.
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Santus, C. (2017). From Ambiguity to Separation : Shaping an Armenian Catholic Identity in Constantinople (1680–1730). International Conference “Global Reformations: Transforming Early Modern Religions, Societies, and Cultures”, Toronto (Canada). https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/106822