This article portrays the construction of the political doctrine of Mkhitar Sebastatsi as a political concept of culture. It is based on the cultural and educational activity of the Armenian monastic congregation he founded. The basic idea of article is the idea of national culture as the most important outlet for the spiritual potential of the nation. At the same time, national culture is the storehouse of spiritual experience accumulated in various cultural expressions. It is formed as a result of its “own” origin in history.

The basis of Mkhitar Sebastatsi’s program for the spiritual revival of the nation is formed by the understanding of spirituality (and culture as its projection) as national in its essence. Its motto is not accidental: “Preservation of Armenians and preservation of the nation”. According to the Fr. Abbot, the main way to achieve this is by serving the national culture. It was understood by him as service to God. Mkhitar Sebastatsi, like his great predecessors, stressed the importance of culture and, in the absence of national statehood, elevated it to the rank of national policy, since the 4th century, when Armenia adopted Christianity as state religion.

The activity of the Congregation, predefined by Mkhitar Sebastatsi’s program, has conditioned two phases of the Armenian civilization- the “trumpet call” of the Golden age and the Renaissance (I and II Enlightenment). Thus, the basis for the formation and development of the national ideology of the new era is inscribed in the framework of the Mechitarist Congregation.

Mechitar Sebastatsi and his followers have succeeded in reinstating the Armenian civilizational paradigm.