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Gregory, the Illuminator, then healed King Tiridates, who the hagiographical sources say had been transfomed into a boar for his sins, and preached Christianity in Armenia. He was consecrated bishop of Armenia at Caesarea, baptized King Tiridates and the Armenian people, and traveled throughout Armenia, destroying pagan temples and building ...
Aristaces or Aristakes I (Armenian: Արիստակէս Ա, romanized: Aristakēs) was the second Catholicos of the Armenian Church from 325 until his death in 333. He was the younger son and successor of Gregory the Illuminator, the founder and first head of the Armenian Church and his wife, Julitta (or Mariam) of Armenia.
Julitta of Armenia, also known as Mariam of Armenia, (in Armenian: Ժուլիտտա (Julitta) or Մարիամ (Mariam)) was a figure of early Christianity.While her name and identity are difficult to establish, she is recognized as the wife of Gregory the Illuminator and the founding mother of the Gregorid dynasty, being the mother of Aristaces I and Vrtanes I.
The Catholicos is often referred to both by the church and the media as the Armenian Pontiff. [2] [3] Historically, the Catholicos was known in English and other languages as the Armenian Patriarch or the Patriarch of Armenia, and sometimes as the Patriarch of Etchmiadzin (or Echmiadzin) to distinguish from the Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople and the Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem.
A relief of Agathangelos on the Armenian Cathedral of Moscow.. Agathangelos (in Old Armenian: Ագաթանգեղոս Agatʿangełos, in Greek Ἀγαθάγγελος "bearer of good news" or angel, c. 5th century AD [1]) is the pseudonym of the author of a life of the first apostle of Armenia, Gregory the Illuminator, who died about 332. [2]
Gregory the Illuminator lost icon from Hagia Sophia Nerses V Ashtaraketsi portriet Mkrtich Khrimian (Khrimyan hayrik) Gregory the Illuminator (c. 257 – c. 328), founder and first official head of the Armenian Apostolic Church, venerated as a saint in the Armenian Apostolic Church and in some other churches
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Gregorids were an Armenian noble family descended from St. Gregory the Illuminator (c. 257–330) and his wife Julitta (or Mariam) of Armenia, and thus of Arsacid stock, whose members served as patriarchs of Armenia from the early fourth century to the death of its last male member, St. Sahak I Souren Pahlav, in 437/439.