Armenian Church

Noun

Meaning

an independent Christian church established in Armenia since 300; was influenced by both Roman and Byzantine traditions

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A number of prayers, and about thirty of the canonical hymns of the Armenian Church, are ascribed to Gregory the Illuminator. Source: Internet

"Armenia", p. 5. Following the fall of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia in 1375, the seat of the Armenian Church was transferred from Sis back to Vagharshapat near Yerevan in 1441. Source: Internet

Giving the Armenian Church its own distinctive intellectual/cultural national entity was deemed an essential component of the battle to retain its independence against the unrelenting avaricious Greek and Assyrian ambitions. Source: Internet

However once secure in their conquest, the Tatars, followed by future Ottoman rulers of Armenia, understood well how at certain points their interests coincided with toleration of an apolitical Armenian Church. Source: Internet

Most critical here was the readiness of Armenia's foreign of rulers, among them the Tatars, to accommodate into their system of governance an apolitical Armenian Church that had indeed proved its capacity to deliver a passive population to foreign rule. Source: Internet

At its height secular forces often cowered helplessly before the force of the Armenian Church. Source: Internet

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