The Mekhitarist Congregation is an Armenian religious covenant and cultural institution that follows the Rule of Saint Benedict. It was founded in 1700 in Constantinople by Abbot Mkhitar Sebastatsi (born 7 February 1676, in Sebastia). Mkhitar Sebastatsi founded the Congregation by gathering a group of Armenian youth around him.he cultural undertakings, activity, and production of the Congregation is invaluable. Their goal was to study and introduce the Armenian people to their historical, ecclesiastical, literary, linguistic, scientific, and cultural values over the centuries. It is due to this rich activity of the Mekhitarists, carried out with unprecedented consistency, that in the 19th century we witness the flourishing of Armenian culture, called the Renaissance. The Congregation has enriched the treasury of the Armenian people, particularly with theological, commentary, bibliographic, historiographical, grammatical, lexical, geographical, linguistic, biographical, ecclesiastical, archaeological, manuscript, patriarchal, rhetorical, monastic, and historical works. It is within this context that the most important works of Greek and Latin, Italian, French, German and English literature and philosophical thought were translated into Armenian.
The greatest literary pride of the Mekhitarist Congregation is its philological merit, which includes all fields of Armenology: language, history, geography, archeology, church history, bibliography, science, art, architecture, manuscript study and more. During its activity, the Congregation has published numerous Armenological-philological, religious, and other scientific works. They are now kept at the Venice and Vienna monasteries. The Mekhitarists also preserved the tangible cultural treasures of the Armenian people.Teaching the Armenian language and its preservation was the primary work of the Congregation’s Founder. The Mekhitarists had many schools, and still do, in Istanbul, Beirut, Aleppo, and Argentina.The Mekhitarist press and publishing houses have been operating for 300 years. Today, the Mekhitarist publications reach thousands of volumes, with the Bazmavep (1843) and Handes Amsorya (1887) periodicals at the core of this publishing operation; it is noteworthy that Bazmavep is the oldest newspaper still in print in Italy, and one of the four oldest in the world, which are still in print today
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