[JoeFromSidney]

On my first Sunday in Turkey I needed to go to Mass. My Department Chairman (a Muslim) had mistakenly directed me to the Greek Orthodox cathedral. When I got there I immediately realized that wasn't what I wanted. I looked around and found a place that looked "church-like" at the end of an alley. It had all the marks of a Catholic church (stations of the Cross, statues of the saint, etc.) but nothing to tell what it was. While I was standing there wondering what to do, a tour group came in. One of the tourists asked me something in English, which I was able to answer for him I then asked what this place was. He told me it was an Armenian Catholic church. I decided I might as well stick around and see if they had a Mass, which they did.

The next Sunday I found the church I should have been at, one run by an order of Italian monks.

[NYer]

He told me it was an Armenian Catholic church.

Beautiful!! I am a Roman Catholic but practice my faith in a Maronite Catholic Church. As a former pastor phrased it to another RC: "same faith, different flavor".

[Kolokotronis]

The church you were in was likely an “Armenian Catholic Church” not an Oriental Orthodox one.