Jump to content

Asdvadzadur of Armenia

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by KasparBot (talk | contribs) at 12:09, 27 March 2016 (migrating Persondata to Wikidata, please help, see challenges for this article). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Catholicos Asdvadzadur was the Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church between 1715 and 1725.

As Catholicos, he secured an alliance with Peter the Great of Russia for aid against the expansionist Muslim powers of the Ottoman Empire and Persia prior to the Russo-Persian War.

Tombstone of Astvadzadur I, Catholicos of All Armenians, at St. Hripsime church.

He is buried at St. Hripsime Church, Echmiadzin.

Preceded by Catholicos of the Holy See of St. Echmiadzin and All Armenians
1715–1725 		Succeeded by

Further reading

"The Armenian Rebellion of the 1720s and the Threat of Genocidal Reprisal", Armen Ayvazyan


Stub icon

This biographical article about an Armenian religious figure is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Stub icon

This article about an Oriental Orthodox clergyman is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Asdvadzadur_of_Armenia&oldid=712169266"