It is exempt , i.e. immediately subject to the Holy See ( notably the Roman Congregation for the Oriental Churches ) , not part of any ecclesiastical province . Between 1720 and 1760 large communities of Armenian Catholic refugees from Turkey and Persia settled in the territory of the North Caucasus . The flow of Armenian immigrants to Christian Russia increased with the Armenian genocide executed by the Turkish authorities , especially since the late nineteenth century . Some of the faithful were able to take refuge in southern Armenia and Georgia . From 1907 in Krasnodar there was a special vicar for priests of the Armenian Catholic rite . In 1760 the Catholics in Astrakhan were 1/5 of the population of the city and they had a parish . Armenian Catholic communities were established in Astrakhan , Voronezh , Penza , Rostov-on-Don , Saratov , Samara and Tsaritsyn
Armenian genocide
Armenian Genocide
Ordinariate for Catholics of Armenian Rite in Eastern Europe