Vrtanes I
Catholicio of Armenia
b. 3rd century · d. 342
14th Catholicos of All Armenians
Offices
Vrtanes also known Saint Vrtanes was the 14th Catholicos-Patriarch of the Armenian Apostolic Church serving from 333 until his death in 341. He was the son of Julitta of Armenia and Gregory the Illuminator.
Related people
- Julitta of Armenia child of · traditional
- Gregory the Illuminator child of · traditional
- Aristaces I sibling of · traditional
- Aristaces I succeeded · inferred
- Grigoris parent of · traditional
- St. Husik I parent of · traditional
- St. Husik I preceded · inferred
Events
Places
- Caesarea in Cappadocia birth
How we know
Recorded as a historical figure.
- History of the Armenians 1 claim — Conversion of Armenia
- Oriens Christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus 1 claim — Oriens Christianus I, coll. 1373-1374 — Catholici Armeniae Majoris, no. III