Third Council of Dvin
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Date | 607 or 609-610 |
Accepted by | Armenian Apostolic Church |
Previous council | Second Council of Dvin |
Location | Dvin |
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The Third Council of Dvin was a church council held in 607 (or 609-610[1]) in the city of Dvin (then in Sasanian Armenia). The schism within the Armenian Church which had erupted as a result of the second Chalcedonian Catholicosate in Armenia (591–610), was mended, and the Council of Chalcedon of 451 was explicitly condemned.[2][3]
The synod saw the election of an Armenian, Council of Chalcedon in accordance with the decision of the Second Council of Dvin.[4] The Georgian church had however, come to support the position of the Chalcedonian Church on that Council, and this Council established the distinct split between the Armenian and Georgian Churches.
, as Catholicos. Abraham condemned theAlthough a rift was established with the Georgian church the Council led to mending of a rift within the Armenian Church itself.[5]
References[]
- ^ Cone, Steven D.; Rea, Robert F. (2019-09-05). "Chapter 2: The Church from 500 to 1500". A Global Church History: The Great Tradition through Cultures, Continents and Centuries. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-0-567-67305-3.
- ^ La Porta 2018, p. 137.
- ^ van Lint 2018, p. 423.
- ^ "The Orthodox Church of Georgia". CNEWA. Retrieved 2020-09-17.
- ^ Augustine Casiday, The Orthodox Christian World (Routledge, 21 Aug 2012) page 47-48.
Sources[]
- La Porta, Sergio (2018). "Armenia". In Nicholson, Oliver (ed.). The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-866277-8.
- van Lint, Theo (2018). "councils of the Church, Armenia". In Nicholson, Oliver (ed.). The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-866277-8.
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