The Church of Armenia: Her History, Doctrine, Rule, Discipline, Liturgy, Literature and Existing Condition

The Church of Armenia, Her History, Doctrine, Rule, Discipline, Liturgy, Literature and Existing Condition, written by the Armenian Church Patriarch Malachia Ormanian and translated by G. Marcar Gregory, published by A. R. Mowbray in London in 1912, is the tradition's own authoritative account of its history and practice, written by one of its own senior hierarchs. Its strength is that it presents the Armenian Apostolic Church's self-understanding directly from an author with the highest internal authority to state it, rather than through an outside observer's interpretation. Its limit is exactly that internal vantage point: it is the tradition's own statement of itself rather than independent scholarly analysis, so a claim about how outside historians assess Armenian church history, or about points where independent scholarship differs from the tradition's own account, needs a separate independent source.