The Armenians' mass immigration to Transylvania in the second half of the 17th century introduced their church administration as well, and their union with Rome led to the emergence of the Armenian-rite branch of Catholicism. The more than 300-year-old separate Transylvanian Armenian Catholic rite within the Archdiocese of Alba Iulia has necessitated the establishment of an individual archive. The archive that was created in Armenopolis in 2010 incorporates the full archival stock of the church institutions of the Catholic Armenians in Transylvania: the administrative documentation of the four Armenian Catholic parishes (Gheorgheni, Elisabethopolis, Armenopolis, and Frumoasa), the 20th-century archive of the Armenian Apostolic Governorate, and the archival fragments of two archdeaconry districts.weiterlesen