Armenian Apostolic Holy Church The Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin

Now, Archbishop José Bettencourt, Apostolic Nuncio of the Vatican, has an official residence in Armenia. On October 27, the official residence of the Vatican Embassy was opened in the center of Yerevan. The Holy See was the first of the states and international organizations to recognize the Armenian Independence in 1992. However, before that, the residence of the Apostolic Nuncio was Tbilisi.