Thanks for the information.
It seems that the name "Armenian Catholic church" may refer either to the
church established in 1742 by Pope Benedict XIV, or to the church formed by
Armenians living in Poland in 1620, after the union of Leopolis by Mikołaj
(Nicholas) Torosowicz. This later church was centered in Galicia and eastern
Poland.
Therefore we cannot draw conclusions about the number of Armenians in
Czernowitz in the 19th century.
While looking for Czernowitz population data, I found an article by Amy
Colin and Peter Rychlo, In the book "History of the literary cultures of
East-Central Europe".
According to this article, in 1913, there were in Czernowitz the following
number of people belonging to the various religious denominations:
28 613 Jews, 23474 Roman Catholics, 20 615 Greek Orthodox,
9588 Greek Catholics, 4369 Evangelical Protestants, 311 Armenian Catholics,
84 Lipovans, 31Armenian Orthodox, 25 without any religious affiliation,
14 old Catholics, 2 Moslems, 1 Anglican and 1 Menonite,
The various linguistic groups in 1913 numbered:
41 360 German, 15254 Ruthenian, 14893 Polish,
13440 Romanian, 411 Czeck/Slovak, 57 Hungarian, 29 Slovenian,
13 Italian, 1 Serbian.
Yiddish is not mentioned, which leads me to think that the authors included
it under German.
According to the same article, in 1787 when the population of Czernowitz was
registered for the first time, it consisted of 153 Romanians, 84 Germans,
76 Jews and a small number of Albanians, Armenians, Czechs, Greeks,
Hungarians and Poles. in 1910, 32% of the city's population was Jewish, by
1919 the Jewish population of Czernowitz had increased to 47.4%.
Mimi
On 10/26/10 11:29 AM, "HARDY BREIER" <HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET> wrote:
> The church first 1876 the Residenz later 1882.
> These are completion dates.
> Hardy
>
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