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Asdvadzadur of Armenia

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Asdvadzadur of Armenia was the Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church from 8 May 1715 to 1725. He was anointed in Etchmiadzin. 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.

References

Isavertenc̣, Yakobos (1877). Armenia and the Armenians. p. 276.
Krikorian, Haig A. (2009). Lives and Times of the Armenian Patriarchs of Jerusalem: Chronological Succession of Tenures. H.A. Krikorian. p. 285. ISBN 978-0-9769107-1-8.

External links

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

Preceded byAlexander I of Armenia

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

Succeeded byKarapet II

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