David I of Armenia
Catholicoi of Armenia
d. 741
47th Catholicos of All Armenians · 728–?
Offices
- Catholicos of All Armenians № 47 · 728 – ?
David I was the 49th Catholicos-Patriarch of the Armenian Apostolic Church between 728 and 741. He was from Aramus in the district of Kotayk. He moved the Armenian Apostolic Church's Holy See from Dvin to Aramonk due to Dvin's fall to Arab hands and problems which resulted from that. Catholicos David built a church and patriarchal residence there, near which he was buried upon his death.
Related people
- Dertad I preceded · inferred
Places
- Aramus birth
How we know
Recorded as a historical figure.
- Oriens Christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus 1 claim — Oriens Christianus I, coll. 1391-1392 — Catholici Armeniae Majoris, no. XXXIX