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Catholicos of All Armenians

head of the Armenian Apostolic Church

8 dated entries naming Catholicos of All Armenians, drawn from 8 separate years between 302 CE and 1173 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

Also written as Armenian Catholicos, Patriarch of Armenia in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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4th century

  • 302Gregory the Illuminator is consecrated as Patriarch of Armenia by Leontius of Caesarea.source
  • 388Isaac, age 50, is named Catholicos (spiritual head) of the Armenian Apostolic Church.source

8th century

  • 703Elias I becomes Catholicos of All Armenians.source

11th century

  • 1065Gregory II the Martyrophile is consecrated as catholicos of the Armenian church in Tzamandossource

12th century

  • 1102Nerses IV, Catholicos of Armenia (d. 1173)source
  • 1139November – Alberic of Ostia, papal legate to Outremer, convenes a legatine council in the cathedral of Antioch to examine the conduct of the Latin patriarch. The council is also attended by the Armenian Catholicos Gregory III and marks a symbolic beginning for Armenian-Latin ecclesiastic high-level contacts.source
  • 1141April 2 – In a legatine council convened by Alberic of Ostia in the Templum Domini, the claim of the Latin Patriarch of Antioch over the diocese of Tyre is rejected. Also, a step towards church unity between the Armenian and Latin Church is achieved when the Armenian Catholicos Gregory III makes a profession of faith and promises to restore union with Rome, which is achieved at the end of the century.source
  • 1173August 13 – Nerses IV, Catholicos of Armenia (b. 1102)source

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