The various Christian Churches

Founded around the year 400, the Maronite Church is distinguished by being the only Eastern Church that has remained in full communion with the Roman Catholic Church over the centuries, without any division or splitting. Its origins lie in the Church of Antioch, the city where “for the first time the disciples were called Christians” (Acts 11: 26). It is also the only Church named after a saint.

The name “Anglican” means “of England”, but the Anglican Church exists worldwide, with ca. 80 million Anglicans across the world.  It is the third largest Christian communion in the world, after the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Churches.

The Anglican Communion is organized as an international association of Churches consisting of the Church of England and of national and regional Anglican Churches with full autonomy and in communion with it, specifically with its principal primate, the Archbishop of Canterbury. As the religious head of the Church of England, he has no formal authority outside that jurisdiction, but is recognized as symbolic and spiritual head of the worldwide communion and is considered, among the other Primates, as primus inter pares. He chairs and presides the “Instruments of Communion”: the meeting of the Primates, the Anglican Consultative Council.

"In origine, la musica della Chiesa armena veniva cantata all’unisono, con una sola voce. E fino ad ora, in alcune parti della Chiesa armena, la tradizione viene mantenuta. All’inizio del XIX. secolo, le nostre liturgie sono state sviluppate e armonizzate per cori misti. La tradizione della Chiesa armena è stupendamente ricca, abbiamo molti inni, poi c’è un bellissimo spirito di adorazione."