Dertad I
Catholicos Dertad I was the Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church between 741 and 764. According to the historian Kirakos Ganjaketsi, Dertad was from Otmus village and was a 'modest, blessed man, radiant in all virtue'. He reigned in a time of relative peace with a break in the Arab invasions.
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- Catholicoi of Armenia
- 764 deaths
- 8th-century Oriental Orthodox archbishops
- Armenian religious biography stubs