The Armenian Apostolic (Orthodox) community has a number of churches and a monastery in Romania.
They strive to mirror the life of the early Apostolic Christian community and to live in perfect charity.
The Armenian Apostolic community has its own school, Haratch Calouste Gulbenkian Secondary School.
This lineage of ordination is traceable, according to "apostolic" churches, to the original Twelve Apostles, thus making the Church the continuation of the early Apostolic Christian community.
The Catholics have always lived somewhat separate from the Armenian Apostolic communities, and intermarriage is not very common.
In addition to the Orthodox Christian and Sunni Muslim communities, there are also small Baha'i, Jewish, Protestant (including Anglican), Roman Catholic, Maronite (Eastern Rites Catholic) and Armenian Apostolic communities in Cyprus.
The Armenian Patriarchate also has jurisdiction over the Armenian Apostolic (Orthodox) communities in Palestine, Israel and Jordan.
Montreal, numbering 21,765 people of Armenian ancestry, is center for two Armenian Apostolic (Orthodox) prelacies governing not just Montreal community but all Armenian Apostolic (Orthodox) communities throughout Canada:
Alongside these, there is a New Apostolic community and the Liebenzeller Gemeinschaft.
John the Baptist is seen as an archetypical monk, and monasticism was also inspired by the organisation of the Apostolic community as recorded in Acts 2.