mekhitarist

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A member of an order of Armenian monks in communion with the Church of Rome, under a rule resembling the Benedictine, founded by Peter Mekhitar (1676-1749) at Constantinople in 1701, confirmed by the Pope in 1712, and finally settled on the island of San Lazzaro near Venice in 1717.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun (Eccl. Hist.) See mechitarist.