Gregory III. Pahlawuni

Gregory III. Pahlawuni was from 1113 to 1166 Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church . He was the son of Prince Abirad Pahlawuni and nephew of Barsegh Pahlawuni . Gregor's election was contested because of his youth; as a result, the Catholic of Aghtamar (Ałt'amar) split off and was therefore excommunicated in 1114.

Gregory was elected and consecrated in Kamir Vank . He first took up residence in Shugur , from 1125 on at his father's castle Tzovk , southeast of Harput .

In 1139 he went on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem , where he also took part in a synod in Antioch , which was supposed to investigate the behavior of the Latin patriarch Ralf von Domfront there , who was finally deposed. The papal legate, Cardinal Alberich von Ostia , presided over the synod. In 1140 Gregory took part in another synod in Jerusalem, which was also presided over by Alberic of Ostia.

After the fall of Edessa in 1144, he sent an envoy to Pope Eugene III. he met in Viterbo .

In 1147 Gregor moved to Hromgla at the invitation of Beatrice, the wife of Joscelin II of Edessa . He established this as a Catholic seat at the latest in 1150. In 1151 he drove out the castellan Michael to Bar Hebräus ; he seems to have bought the fortress beforehand, apparently bypassing the castellan.

In 1166 he set his brother Nerses IV. Šnorhali as a coadjutor Catholicos and died soon after.

literature

• Charles A. Frazee: The Christian church in Cilician Armenia: its relations with Rome and Constantinople to 1198 . In: Church History 45/2 (1976) 166-184.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Boase, Thomas Sherrer Ross (Ed.): The Cilician Kingdom of Armenia . Scottish Academic Press, Edinburgh 1978, ISBN 0-7073-0145-9 , pp. 166-167 (English).

predecessor	Office	successor
Barsegh from Ani	Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church 1113–1166	Nerses IV. Šnorhali