Catholicos Dertad I was the 50th
Catholicos-Patriarch of the
Armenian Apostolic Church
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between 741 and 764.
According to the historian Kirakos Ganjaketsi, Dertad was from Otmus village and was a 'modest, blessed man, radiant in all virtue'. He reigned in a time of relative peace with a break in the
Arab
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Arabs have been in the Fertile Crescent for thousands of years ...
invasions.
Catholicoi of Armenia
Catholicos Dertad I
Year of birth unknown
8th-century Oriental Orthodox archbishops
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