The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire · Religion

Armenian Church

Also known as Eutychian Church of Armenia

  • Religion

A Christian church maintaining pure Eutychian doctrine that Christ's manhood was of divine and incorruptible substance. The church had a patriarch (catholic) at Ekmiasin monastery near Erivan with forty-seven archbishops. The church had eight thousand towns or villages with the patriarch receiving annual taxes of six hundred thousand crowns. The church had Christian kings in thirteenth-century Cilicia. The church was known for the austerity of bishops who cultivated gardens after performing liturgy.

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Religion
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Book 1 · Ch. 210
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History

  1. BOOK 1The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire / Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes)

    A Christian church maintaining pure Eutychian doctrine that Christ's manhood was of divine and incorruptible substance. The church had a patriarch (catholic) at Ekmiasin monastery near Erivan with forty-seven archbishops. The church had eight thousand towns or villages with the patriarch receiving annual taxes of six hundred thousand crowns. The church had Christian kings in thirteenth-century Cilicia. The church was known for the austerity of bishops who cultivated gardens after performing liturgy.

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