Ազգային-եկեղեցական ժողովների սահմանադիր դերն ու նշանակությունը / The Constitutional Role and Significance of National Church Assemblies

The beginnings of constitutional culture arose in Armenian reality in the pre-Christian period. They acquired a more systemic and fundamental character after the adoption of Christianity as a state religion, taking the form of value approaches underlying the canonical constitutions adopted by the National-Church Councils. In Armenian reality, constitutional culture had its own path of independent development, conditioned by specific realities, specific manifestations of our identity and culture of coexistence. Armenian historiography contains numerous references to the circumstances of the convocation of national church councils, with the main emphasis on the presentation of documentary material, the assessment of their role and significance, the analysis of the historical period and a number of other circumstances. Some attention was also paid to the general legal analysis of the rules adopted by these assemblies. However, we consider it a major gap that the constitutional role of national church assemblies has not received due attention from legal scholars. The fact is that, first of all, it was these assemblies that became the basis for the formation of Armenian constitutional culture.