Saint Husik I or Husik ( hy, Սբ. Հուսիկ Ա. Պարթև ) was the 15th Catholicos-Patriarch of the

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. He was the fourth in line, and the last Catholicoi, in the line of the

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after

Gregory the Illuminator Gregory the Illuminator ( Classical hy, Գրիգոր Լուսաւորիչ, reformed: Գրիգոր Լուսավորիչ, ''Grigor Lusavorich'';, ''Gregorios Phoster'' or , ''Gregorios Photistes''; la, Gregorius Armeniae Illuminator, cu, Svyas ...

, St. Aristaces I and St. Vrtanes I. Husik was the son of Vrtanes IDodgeon, ''The Roman eastern Frontier and the Persian Wars (AD 226-363): a documentary history'', p.324 by an unnamed mother and had a brother called Grigoris who was martyred in Caucasian Albania (died 330–340). His paternal uncle was Aristaces I and paternal grandfather was the great Gregory the Illuminator.P’awstos Buzandac’i’s, ''History of the Armenians'', Book Three, Chapter 12 Although Husik was born, educated and ordained in Caesarea

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; he also spent part of his life in the Arsacid Court of King Tigranes VII (Tiran). Husik married at some point an Arsacid Princess, who was an unnamed daughter of

Tiridates III of Armenia Tiridates III ( Armenian: Գ ''Trdat III''; – c. 330), also known as Tiridates the Great ( hy, Տրդատ Մեծ ''Trdat Mets''), or Tiridates IV, was the Armenian Arsacid king from c.298 to c. 330. In 301, Tiridates proclaimed Christiani ...

and Ashkhen. With his wife, Husik had two sons: * Papas (Pap), who renounced his Catholicos position in 348. He married Varazdoukht, an Arsacid Princess who was one of the sisters of Tigranes VII. * At’anaganes, who married Bambish, an Arsacid Princess, a sister of Varazdoukht and Tigranes VII. Through his second son, Husik was the grandfather of the Catholicos, St. Nerses I.The Armenian Church – Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin: Establishment of the Armenian Church
/ref> He became the new Catholicos after his father and reigned from 341 until 347. Husik was known to be a good person. During his reign, Husik denounced the evils of King Tigranes VII and the King's courtiers. He went so far at one point, Husik tried to ban Tigranes VII and his associates from the church at the time of a festival. For this act that Husik did to King Tigranes VII and his associates, Husik died as a Christian martyr from being clubbed to death. Husik along with his brother and members of his family are all Saints in the Armenian Apostolic Church.

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* M.H. Dodgeon & S.N.C Lieu, The Roman eastern Frontier and the Persian Wars (AD 226–363): a documentary history, Part 1, Routledge, 1994 * C. Toumanoff, Manuel de généalogie et de chronologie pour le Caucase chrétien (Arménie, Géorgie, Albanie) étail des éditions p. 74 * R. Grousset, Histoire de l’Arménie des origines à 1071, Paris, Payot, 1947 (réimpr. 1973, 1984, 1995, 2008), 644, pp. 127–130
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