Armenian Sisters of the Immaculate Conception
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The Order of the Armenian Catholic Sisters of the Immaculate Conception (Armenian: Անարատ յղութեան հայ քոյրերու միաբանութիւն) is a religious order of the Catholic Church founded on 5 June 1847 in Istanbul, Turkey. It was proposed in 1843 on the initiative of Archbishop Andon Hassounian who later became Catholicos and the first cardinal of Armenian ancestry.[1][2] The Sisters had, around 1900, up to 30 schools in various countries in the Middle East, including Beirut, Cairo and Aleppo, Syria.[3] In America they operate the Armenian Sisters Academy with schools in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1963), Boston and Los Angeles.[4]
